Pacifical has become the first seafood company to pass the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST’s) capability test, demonstrating its ability to capture all data required by the GDST Standard, receiving and transmitting data in the correct formats, and using a standardised communications protocol.
Pacifical’s SmarTuna online platform facilitates optimal visibility, verification, traceability, and certification in sustainable Pacific tuna value chains for all involved stakeholders.
‘As promoters of fully traceable sustainably caught tuna from the Pacific Island nations, we see this as a revolutionary development and are enormously proud to be the first organisation in the global seafood industry to be recognised as GDST capable,’ said Pacifical COO Cynthia Asaf.
‘We want to provide all retailers and tuna supply chain actors, supporting the GDST initiative, the future ability to be able to receive all relevant traceability data from our fully verified sustainable Pacifical tuna, now in the GDST format. We encourage them to join us in our effort in making large scale interoperable traceability a reality.’
Pacifical started this joint partnership with the GDST in 2021 by engaging in a beta pilot for their first-ever testing tool. This was designed to enable automatic computer-to-computer sharing of GDST-compatible data. The beta process was shown to have been vital to demonstrate the verified capability of the SmarTuna platform to share data according to the GDST framework.
‘Availability of the first software solutions to earn the GDST-Capable logo represents a major advancement for digital seafood traceability,’ said Greg Brown, Executive Director of the GDST.
‘We now have a realistic way for industry to know if software is capable of fully implementing the GDST Standard.’
In order for seafood supply chain actors to be able to prove they can reliably receive GDST-compatible data, they will also first need to pass the GDST Capability Test.
