Q&A with Fiorenza Micheli: Monitoring Human Rights in the Seafood Sector
by Kristen Weiss
Jun 23, 2017 6:00 AM ET
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Responsible Seafood
Originally published on Stanford News
Fiorenza Micheli, a professor of biology at Stanford and a co-author of the paper, discusses why addressing human rights in fisheries is such a critical issue, and how the group hopes to move forward.
What has the response been so far to your social responsibility framework?
I was thrilled to see that nine of the world’s biggest seafood businesses signed an initiative at the UN Ocean Conference pledging to help end slave labor and work toward more sustainable fisheries, and nearly a dozen businesses, including the grocery chain Albertson’s, in attendance at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit signed onto the voluntary agreement.
