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The Faculty and Students of the Marine Affairs Program invite you to a seminar on:

FishTech: The Challenges and Opportunities of Traceability, Information Technology and Global Seafood Supply Chains

Eric Enno Tamm
General Manager, ThisFish

Wednesday, March 30
3:00 - 4:30 pm

5^th floor lounge
Life Science Centre, Biology Department

Abstract
In the past 10 years, the revolution in mobile and information technology has provided new opportunities to collect, share and analyze data in global seafood supply chains, from point of harvest to point of sale. There are opportunities to use electronic traceability to ensure more responsible and sustainable supply chains, preventing illegal fishing, human rights abuses and seafood fraud. At the same time, the seafood industry is fraught with challenges: low profit margins, opaque business practices, complex supply chains and diverse, small-scale operators. This talk will identify these challenges and opportunities, and explore the future of the global seafood industry.

Biography
Eric Enno Tamm is the General Manager of ThisFish, a seafood traceability system launched by Vancouver-based non-profit Ecotrust Canada in 2010. Prior to working on ThisFish, Eric was head of communications for Ecotrust Canada and executive director of the Coastal Community Network, an advocacy group in British Columbia. Eric grew up in the commercial fishing industry on Vancouver Island and has worked in the harvesting and processing sectors, and has authored several reports on sustainable fisheries and ITQ systems. Eric is also an author, whose first book, a biography of famed marine ecologist Ed Ricketts, was a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book in 2005. His second book on the modernization of China won the Ottawa Book Award for Nonfiction in 2011. He holds a masters of European Affairs from Lund University and a master of journalism from the University of Southern California.