Austral Fisheries
Terra Moana were engaged by Austral Fisheries, a globally leading sustainable seafood company, to review and assess their operations and provide insights into their crewing arrangements and improvement recommendations going forward in order to meet international best practice.
Social issues in the seafood supply chain are becoming increasingly important, specifically those related to workers and working conditions both in processing and at sea. Terra Moana has partnered with Seafood Matter, a leader in improving seafood supply chain social conditions. We have been engaged by Austral Fisheries to review and assess their operations and provide insights into their crewing arrangements and improvement recommendations going forward in order to meet international best practice.
Report and Analysis
The team provided a social conditions gap analysis report and review against international best practice to achieve a higher level of compliance against the best available social accountability guidelines for Austral Fisheries.
At the 2017 Pacific Tuna Conference, Marcelo Hidalgo of Seafood Matter presented an overview of the social assessment approach he had developed. Katherine immediately saw the value of the assessment tool and potential application with Austral Fisheries.
Read the report
Austral Fisheries approached Terra Moana to help them understand the rapidly changing modern slavery fisheries arena. Terra Moana partnered with SeafoodMatter to conduct the first assessment of Austral’s social accountability. The first Austral assessment identified actions they could take to improve their social accountability. That was subsequently re-assessed by SeafoodMatter and Terra Moana in 2018 and Austral had implemented many excellent steps to improve the treatment of workers on board. Austral was able to then use these reports, and its new social accountability management approach to complete its Modern Slavery Statement under Australian law. Terra Moana and SeafoodMatter went on to form On-Board Social Accountability (OSA) International to develop social accountability in seafood.
Katherine Short
Co-founder
Having had a terrific ten years, Partner and Co-Founder Katherine Short has decided to seek new opportunities (from end March 2024). Katherine intends to dive wholeheartedly into marine and coastal systems change and the policy, research and advocacy required alongside the empowerment of all who seek to better care for the ocean.
Katherine understands how those reliant upon natural resources for their livelihoods must be supported to adopt more sustainable practices and approaches this with passion, honesty, creativity and perseverance.
She worked with WWF globally for 17 years to grow healthy and well-managed fisheries gaining significant experience in designing ecosystem-based approaches and growing the uptake of the Marine Stewardship Council. She holds a Masters in Conservation Science (Imperial College London) on natural capital and ecosystem services and is business partner with Tony Craig in Terra Moana Ltd, a sustainability consultancy, including advising Moana New Zealand.
Terra Moana was instrumental in the establishment of On-Board Social Accountability (OSA International) Ltd, a not-for-profit social enterprise that sought to improve social accountability in seafood (2016-2023).
Katherine is a Trustee of Blue Cradle and has also served as an adviser to the Clare and Whakatupu Foundations, on the Moonjelly Academy Science Advisory Committee, and on the Steering Group of Te Ahu o Rehua - the Māori marine science network. She has also served as a WWF New Zealand Emerging Director (2019-20) and co-founded Gecko NZ Trust (1995-2015). She is a trained Regenesis Practitioner, Alumnus of Imperial College London, Victoria University of Wellington, and United World College, completed Te Pūtaketanga (Te Reo Level 4), and an Ovate in the Grove of the Summer Stars.
Katherine has a deep commitment to people healing nature healing people.
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