Bangkok has launched ThaiTrace to improve transparency and traceability in domestic organic products, suggesting there's growing domestic pressure in Southeast Asia to improve the provenance of food.

Sysco, the largest food distributor in North America, has teamed up with WWF to double-down on sustainable seafood making new commitments to have its top 15 seafood species MSC certified by 2025. Sysco is also backing the new Global Dialogue for Seafood Traceability 1.0 data standard, which could have a big impact on supply chains going forward.

The two large philanthropic funders behind sustainable, eco-certified seafood have published a report identifying five key areas for future investment including improved enforcement, building local capacity, supply chain transparency, government capacity and market infrastructure.

More and more researchers are using data from the maritime Automated Identification System (AIS) on fishing vessels to publish papers shedding new light on the dark corners of the seafood industry. Two academic articles analyze global high-seas fleet ownership and illegal labour practices.

Leonardo Bonanni, the Founder CEO of Sourcemap, has written an insightful article arguing that mass balance auditing -- random sampling quantities of inputs to outputs -- is allowing uncertified products to sneak into supply chains.

Interpol published a review of the last decade of fighting IUU fishing and how this activity is connected to a web of other illegal activity such as human smuggling, drugs, money laundering and other illicit activities.