Explore our latest reports to gain insights into our current work with clients and collaborators. These documents highlight our past projects.
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Vessel Tracking & Personal Data Protection (2024-2025) (Coming Soon)
Aquatic Animal Welfare Report (December 2024) (Coming Soon)
MarinTrust Impact Evaluation (February 2024)
Can certification or improvement efforts contribute to sustainability of marine ingredients? According to the majority of factories engaged with MarinTrust: it certainly can!
In 2023, Natural Justice was commissioned by MarinTrust to conduct an Impact Evaluation on the MarinTrust Standard and Improver Programme to uncover the true impact of its activities. Our evaluation investigated the hypothesis:
“MarinTrust activities lead to improved or protected environmental parameters.”
We set out to evaluate this hypothesis by diving into surveys and interviews with three key groups: MarinTrust certified factories (Group 1), participants in the Improver Programme (Group 2), and factories not engaged with MarinTrust (Group 3). Factory representatives shared insights on improvements, motivations, and the hurdles they faced. We also uncovered two critical supporting sources. First, we compared national legal requirements with MarinTrust standards to see where MarinTrust truly made a difference or if the impact was primarily made through compliance with legal requirements. Second, we explored market demands, especially from pet food and aquaculture feed producers, to understand if customer demand was driving participation or if there were deeper, intrinsic motivations.
Got curious? Visit this MarinTrust webpage or click on the report links to see our findings!
Impact Evaluation Report (English)
Summary Report (English) (Thai) (Vietnamese) (Spanish) (French)
Examples of past legal research & recommendations (2017-2019)
- Fisheries Agreements between the European Union and West African States: its impact on food security and compliance with European and International law. Legal research at University of Amsterdam (2017)
- Legal assessment of environmental laws impacting fish farming in EU, Madagascar, Kenya, Vietnam – Seafood Rating Programme “VISwijzer” (2018)
- Article on the Council of Justice of the European Union on the Western Sahara (Case C-104/16 P) – Oxford Public International Law
- Legal assessment of labour laws in fisheries in Spain – Good Fish Foundation (2019)