National Fish & Seafood (NFS), a US-based division of Pacific Andes Group, has launched SourceTrace™, a cloud-based mobile application to help aqua farmers manage traceability.
The Penver Group has been selected for the first pilot of SourceTrace after collaborating in April of 2015 with National Fish & Seafood to become the first ever group to achieve four-star BAP status in India. Now they are working together to launch the first ever traceability software solution to the Indian shrimp industry. The software will be debuted at GOAL 2015 in Vancouver, BC, Canada this week.
National Fish & Seafood Aquaculture and Sustainability Specialist, Rajkumar Gollapalli, said, “This will revolutionize and streamline the critical work of traceability for aquaculture leaders around the world. It makes this process faster, easier, more reliable and more efficient.”
The cloud-based technology enables complete traceability of all parameters associated with aqua farms, which can be digitally entered into an Android-enabled system, on-site, and retrieved and analyzed by farm managers and National Fish & Seafood’s dedicated aquaculture team.
Data can be entered and retrieved in real-time and will capture the complete traceability details of the production system from the hatchery to the farms and up to the harvesting stage.
“Currently, we are recording lot numbers of every bag of feed, with which we can contact the feed mill to trace back the raw materials to their sources,” explained James Baros, aquaculture and sustainability manager for National Fish & Seafood.
This application is expected to increase the efficiency and transparency of the entire supply chain. It can also maintain legal documents, licenses, effluent records, health certificates etc, which are required for BAP certification.
Jeff Sedacca president of the shrimp division of National Fish & Seafood, said, “We are so pleased to see this industry advancing thanks to technology innovations like SourceTrace, which empower us to collaborate and work more efficiently and with greater transparency than ever before. This is a great benefit to aquafarmers, buyers and wholesalers alike.”
