(Kaohsiung, Taiwan) March 22, 2024 – FCF Co., Ltd. (FCF) reaffirms its commitment to fishery social responsibility and ESG sustainable development by hosting a four-day “Fishery Human Rights and Social Responsibility” training course from March 4th to 7th, 2024. Two seasoned fishery experts, Marcelo Hidalgo and Peter Trott, were invited to lead the course for FCF’s team.
This training program not only adds value to industry knowledge but also serves as a cross-departmental exercise to enhance awareness of social responsibility within the industry. Talents from various departments, from the business team to other service teams, participated in the training. The experts emphasized the importance of “capacity building” as the first step in tackling challenges and implementing improvements. FCF encourages its team to enhance sensitivity and awareness regarding fishery social responsibility issues through the course, laying a solid foundation for FCF’s sustainable sourcing principle.
During the course, both speakers shared practical insights into fishery social responsibility, including the origins of crucial international standards such as the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the International Labour Organization (ILO) Work in Fishing Convention (C188). They also discussed industry responses to these standards and the impact of media and NGOs on fishery social responsibility in recent years. The speakers stressed the importance of “management systems” when addressing fishery social responsibility issues, advocating for learning different international standards, conducting differential analysis of management mechanisms, assessing risks, and setting effective and quantifiable goals for subsequent monitoring and improvement.
Marcelo Hidalgo and Peter Trott, with their extensive experience in management system assessment worldwide and onboard audits, emphasized ISO 19011:2018 guidelines for management system assessment during the course. Their expertise in developing comprehensive social responsibility assessment plans, conducting observations, interviews, document checks during field audits, and finally drafting audit reports and proposing improvements, positively influenced FCF’s implementation of due diligence mechanisms in the supply chain and the development of fishery social responsibility projects.
The conclusion of this training course marks not the end of learning but the beginning of a new journey. FCF, besides continuously expanding capacity building in the supply chain, will continue to enhance its understanding of social responsibility issues, improve management mechanisms, and actively collaborate with industry counterparts to progressively realize FCF’s fishery sustainability blueprint.
