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Fishing and protection of the marine eco-system

Our traceability system and the
Suppliers’ Workplace

The traceability systems of the tuna supply chain and E The name of the fishing vessel;
all Bolton Alimentari production sites are certified in E Registration in the PVR (Proactive Vessel Register)
conformity with the ISO 22005 standard: this guarantees register for Purse Seiner vessels;
the availability, accuracy and reliability of information
related to the origin of tuna across the supply chain. E IMO Number;
Thanks to this website, all those who might be E Ocean of origin;
interested, including end consumers, can request E FAO areas;
specific information regarding the traceability of the tuna
contained in each single can, including fishing data (e.g. E Additional information about fishing areas, i.e.
name and nationality of the vessel, ocean, area, method whether this is an MSC (Marine Stewardship
and period of fishing). Council) certified area, Fishery Improvement
Projects (FIPs) or standard;
Furthermore, the traceability system helps the company
to manage and achieve objectives related to food E Fishing period;
quality and safety and to manage eventual product E Fishing method;
non-conformity, including possible situations in which it
becomes necessary to withdraw or recall a product from E Port of landing.
the market. Additionally, this tool enables us to share data obtained
by suppliers and related to various procurement
In order to share information and documents with
suppliers, we use an IT system known as the “Suppliers’ stages, with all corporate stakeholders, affording us the
Workplace”. This Portal is used to provide our suppliers possibility of evaluating conformity of the latter with our
with all documents requiring formal acceptance, enabling Policies and the laws in force.
us to collect traceability data from them, including:

FISHING VESSEL
FISHING PERIODS

FISHING METHOD FISHING AREA
Traceability
information

NATIONALITY
SPECIES