With seafood accounted for approximately 17% of animal protein intake globally, our reliance on seafood for both nutrients and livelihood is undeniable. In Asia, this factor is even more prominent as we consume 72% of the global seafood supply. On an estimate, about 91-93 million tonnes of fishes are caught from the wild and a further 223.2 million tonnes of seafood is produced. It is no wonder 1/3 of fish stocks today are overfished.

Situated in Singapore, we consume an estimate of 22KG of seafood per capita, which accounts for about 130,000,000KG of seafood annually. Yet sustainable seafood for our table fishes are hardly available while unsustainable fishing methods such as trawling continues to damage our ocean ecosystems without proper traceability and data collection to make the necessary assessment or offer any feasible solutions. This problem extends further when Singapore imports most of our fishes from overseas, posing more challenges for us to achieve seafood traceability.