3. Efforts to Support Sustainable Seafood
1. Create awareness through education of the source.
2. Providing direction to suppliers and end users e.g
hotels, restaurants, etc.
3. Strict receiving policy observed at all times by
Hotels and small companies.
4. Regular monthly supplier visit - on site Regulators of the
Fisheries Division of Fiji
4. Marine Conservation Program
Today’s World, Marine Conservation has become a large part of
Looking After & Protecting our Environment
Focus Areas For the Future
• Start working with the Schools and villages in Teaching about the
marine life and how to protect this environment;
• Create educational system where we can start to work with the locals
in how to catch and fishing control by using farming methods and
better fishing techniques (crab cages);
• Larger Fisheries give more to the local communities as products in the
market place rather than ship everything overseas for larger profit
margins;
• The World is Our Home and we should protect it Look at Today to Live
for Tomorrow.
6. Encountered and Foreseen Challenges
1. Supplier is not aware of the acceptable catch size.
2. Catch are not within acceptable sizes.
3. Storage Issues - Crabs and Lobster are frozen fish is not
properly transported using cold trucks system.
4. Deliration product for the end user.
5. Variety of product Suppliers Chain - Overseas vs. Local
Markets.
7. Focus of Sourcing of Sustainable Seafood
•Criteria in selecting suppliers:
• Acceptable quality of produce
• Encountered, Foreseen
•Challenges
Support to sustainable seafood
• Overall Marine Conservation Program
and CSR Vision
8. Acceptable Quality Seafood
Standard Requirements
Mahi-Mahi Mud Crab
8.5 cm
60 cm
Live
500 grams min
Snapper Lobster
30 cm 10.4-18 cm
Live
Yellow Fin Tuna 600 grams min
90 cm
9. What are we looking for?
• Size
• Weight
• Gender
• How it is caught.
Egg Bearing Female Lobster
10. Major Changes for the Shangri-La Group
STOPPED
Using Sharks Fin in All our
Shangri-la Hotels Properties
by 2012
Banned Blue Fin Tuna
Normally served at a Chinese Wedding to show wealth & prosperity
DEVELOPED
MPA declared nearly over a decade ago around Yanuca Island and establishment of the
Shangri-La Marine Eduation Centre to raise awareness amongst guest and other stakeholders
on the importance of marine conservation as well as the connections between the terrestrial
and marine environment.
