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女士 Cecilia Blasco

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组织: SmartFish Rescate de Valor AC
国家: 墨西哥
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Developing value chains for sustainably caught seafood in small-scale fisheries

Cecilia Blasco is the Executive Director of the Mexican NGO SmartFish Rescate de Valor. She joined the organization in 2016 and leads a committed, multi-disciplinary team. SmartFish focuses on unlocking market incentives for sustainably caught seafood, working on-the-ground with the fishers, seafood workers and fisher organizations, who are the users

and managers of natural resources and with seafood buyers, whose preferences have an impact on ocean ecosystems. Cecilia has over 20 years of experience working on solutions to address environmental degradation and enhance community well-being.

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    • SmartFish is a hybrid enterprise based in Mexico that has developed a suite of tools, capacity building and technical support for small-scale fisher groups to access better-paying markets for sustainably caught seafood. We call this the Value Rescue Model and its purpose is to develop the capacities of small-scale fisher organizations to:

      1. Improve the quality and value of their products,
      2. Strengthen the entrepreneurial capacities of their organization; and
      3. Internalize fisheries management measures

      By improving quality, processing and freezing their harvests and thereby accessing a different seafood market segment, small-scale fisher organizations are able to transition from price-takers to entrepreneurs. The lessons learned over the past 10 years are documented in the Value Rescue Guidelines shared here.

      Value rescue refers to the deliberate harnessing of profits generated from business-related innovations and improvements for the betterment of environmental and social sustainability in small-scale fisheries. The end goal of the value rescue process is to develop fisheries that deliver high-quality, food safety certified seafood that is independently verifiable as environmentally sustainable and socially responsible.

      In development and fisheries improvement processes, value adding generally consists of analyzing production and supply chains to identify ways in which additional value can be generated for the same raw material (eg processing seafood that would otherwise be sold whole round). Value rescue extends typical value addition in three ways:

      1. Adding and recovering value: beyond simple value addition, VR includes recuperating value that is otherwise lost by improving production (catch, handling processing, cold chain, transport, thereby improving product quality) and business practices (administration, production costs, planning, marketing, logistics, etc).
      2. Retaining value: VR includes increasing the proportion of value retained by fishers (through a combination of enterprise development and disintermediation)
      3. Incentivizing improvement: additional value added, recovered, and retained is deliberately harnessed to finance improvement of fisheries’ environmental and social performance.
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