The Responsible Fishing Alliance (RFA) aims to achieve the sustainability of the fish chain worldwide by bringing together all stakeholders in order to work on pragmatic improvements in the field. To date, the RFA has focussed on projects up-stream the fish chain, especially to improve, in a responsible manner, the production of fish products.

The project aims to identify and then test the conditions for integrating responsibly produced fish products as key elements in a ‘Sustainable food’ policy for the catering sector (public and private):

1. To identify responsibly produced fish products as key elements for a nutritionally balanced food,
2. To identify responsibly produced fish products as very efficient elements of CSR for the target organizations (public administrations, schools, private companies),
3. To identify technical tools to include responsibly fish products into a ‘Sustainable food’ strategy (including quality, logistic, and pricing issues),
4. To identify communication tools to promote responsibly fish products to targeted customers (including kids at school, companies’ employees),
5. To test the identified solutions through concrete pilot projects (with the support of the RFA and Risteco/Alimenterra).

Founding documents:

- Action plan resulting from the first meeting of Mensa Civica ‘The European Alliance for Sustainable Public Food Systems’, Clive Peckham, 2008 Jan. 21

Other documents of interest:

Invitation and program Fish & Catering Sector (PDF)(FR)(138k)

Project definition "Fish & Catering Sector"Bruno Corréard. 2008. Mai 01.(PDF)(FR)(142k)  

Relations with other actors:

• European public food sector: administrations, schools, hospitals…;
• International private catering companies: Compass Group/Eurest, Sodexho Group, Elior Group, Sysco/US Foodservice;
• Public authorities and administrations: national, regional and EU level;
• Fishers’ representatives: World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers;
• Fish processors’ representatives,
• Consumers’ associations.
• Organizations of the Terre Citoyenne network : Alimenterra, Risteco,
  FPH, WFF.

Agenda:

2008, Jan. 21 – Project part of the action plan of the Mensa Civica meeting in London

2008, May 01 – Project description by CorreardB consulting

2008, Nov – Workshop on the above subject for precised project description

Project to take place in 12 months (2^nd semester 2008/2009)