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tracing the shrimp supply farmer at sirvichai farm in thailand farmed shrimp is one of the most it very important for seafood buyers to of seafood engagement “costco and wwf are working with shrimp farms to transition to asc certifi- and social requirements," tippett says "our relationship with companies like costco has been invaluable to driving farmers and fisheries around the world through costco's global supply chains and encourage and enable them to improve their practices." partner in moving toward more sustain- able seafood harvesting practices," david we're driving our supply chains toward working in the right direction." courtesy of marine gold traceability refers to the documentation of all the steps in is essential to main- taining accountability since it requires producers to have effective measures to control day-to-day operations "every lot of shrimp factory has a unique identifying code," says biologist and vice president of quality assurance at harvest supplier for more production date us to trace the finished product from farm to bag."-lb costco connection the seafood task force to address sustainability and social and and ngos were discovering dire cases of forced labour and human trafficking in thailand's seafood supply chain charoen pokphand foods and costco teamed up to create the stf in an effort to ensure ethical sustainable shrimp and ethical seafood harvesting practices has been an active player through its work to bring about complete traceability and "we worked to identify the shrimp feed used in the supply chains," says director at mrg and an stf board missing link in traceability-farmers not recording feed lots properly—and fixed it our shrimp farmers now understand that for more on costco's sustainable fisheries ability-fisheries.html better packaging in addition to quality sea- ers are always looking to improve the other pieces as packaging "we are in the process of removing a coating on the cardboard that the shrimp bags are packaged in," says rosanna domi- coating allows for more packaging to be recycled