Swiss food company Gustav Gerig teamed up with a consortium of eight Pacific Island Nations known as Pacifical, to offer a Ethereum blockchain solution for Tuna traceability for products sold by them. Gustav Gerig is perhaps the first European food importer to make a fish range fully traceable from the catch to the final product processing on the blockchain.

This partnership will enable the traceability of Gustav Gerig's Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified canned and pouched Rosé tuna range under its "Raimond Freres" brand through the Ethereum blockchain.

It will provide all its clients access to data on exactly how the Pacifical MSC tuna was sustainably caught through the following information: which captain, vessel, catch timing, method and area, where and when it was processed.

The consumer will need to scan the QR code on the can label to access the blockchain viewer website and enter the Pacifical tracking code found on the can lid to get all the traceability information relevant to the fish.

Pacifical is a tuna marketing company jointly owned by eight tuna-exporting island nations known as the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) - Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.

This blockchain-powered tool was developed for Pacifical by Bangkok-based blockchain service provider Atato, which builds decentralized applications for enterprise customers.

The blockchain-based traceability system covers 220 large fishing vessels, the entire supply chain and chain of custody of about 35 million tuna fish caught annually.

This blockchain solution creates a certification network for fishermen, traders, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers. It will enable them to seamlessly connect, view, upload, manage, and share relevant selected Pacifical MSC traceability and certification records.

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