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Fisheries committee It's a difficult thing to quantify because the impact on your market prices is devalued, and there are just so many economic impacts.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee That is certainly happening here too.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee MSC is a great example of chain-of-custody traceability. The problem is that it applies to less than 10% of the seafood being sold. Access to safe, honestly labelled and legally caught seafood shouldn't be a luxury; it should be a right that every Canadian has, no matter where th
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee Yes, and they're doing the right thing.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee MSC is great, yes.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee We work with Robert Hanner's lab. He's the leading scientist in Canada on this and is part of the sea BOL, the Barcode of Life initiative. “Barcode” means you take a snippet of the DNA, and that snippet, like a bar code, tells you exactly what species you're working with. They're
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee If the committee does study this further, I would recommend bringing Robert Hanner to present as well on this.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee Exactly. It changes market prices.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee To go back to the overall statistic, of the mislabelled substitutes that we found, we did find that 30% were vulnerable or threatened species, and that was a variety of species.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee I'll add that when the United States came up with their seafood import monitoring program, it took 16 departments working together and coming up with recommendations. It is a vital first step to have all of those key players sit down at the table and tackle it together.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee That's a fantastic question. Certain kinds of shellfish have increased traceability, I think because of the disease and health risks associated with them, but it's a proof of concept that can be applied to make sure that all of the seafood we eat is tracked.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee Our colleagues didn't look at that specifically, and a cost distribution conversation definitely has to happen with the players. One thing we heard from industry that has included traceability in their business operations, both internationally in those jurisdictions as well as do
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee Really interesting things have been happening around this concept of Fishcoin, the use of blockchain and how money is allocated to incentivize fishers to participate in the program. I can send more information on fishcoin, but there are different ways in which fishers are seeing
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee Yes, it does. Seafood fraud is actually an umbrella term that can also refer to things like overglazing, underweighting and different issues of that sort, where you're pretending there's more fish matter than there is in what you're selling. Oceana's focus on species substituti
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin
Fisheries committee Yes, all of our numbers are strictly of substituted species: It was one thing on the menu, and from doing did DNA testing we found that it was something completely different. We didn't look at all of the other issues that can be present.
May 15th, 2019Committee meeting
Julia Levin