Seafish unveils five-year Corporate Plan

Industry consultations inform new strategic roadmap for Seafish!

Seafish, the public body supporting the UK seafood industry, has launched its Corporate Plan 20232028. This strategic roadmap reflects the organisation’s vision for a thriving seafood sector and its ambition to drive the industry forward and foster sustainability, resilience, and prosperity.

The 2023-2028 Corporate Plan was developed following a Strategic Review of Seafish that involved extensive consultation and collaboration with government and stakeholders from the seafood industry across the UK. That process has shaped the priorities outlined in Seafish’s new 5-year plan, ensuring it directly addresses the needs of industry.

“Our new Corporate Plan demonstrates our ongoing commitment to support the UK seafood industry,” said Marcus Coleman, CEO at Seafish. “Consultation with industry and government stakeholders has been instrumental in shaping our new priorities. By working together, we can ensure that our initiatives are directly informed by the aspirations of the seafood industry.”

The new strategy aims to provide the support industry needs to address current challenges, such as labour shortages, the climate emergency, post Brexit trade as well as reputational challenges the sector faces.

The Seafish Corporate Plan 20232028 details seven key priorities. These priorities are:

1. Ensuring a safe and skilled workforce. Seafish wants the UK seafood sector recognised as a dynamic, safe, and attractive sector to work.

2. Facilitating and promoting international trade. Seafish wants to support businesses to achieve frictionless seafood trade with suppliers and markets across the world.

3. Responding to the climate change emergency. Seafish will work to firmly place the seafood sector on a clear path to achieve its emissions targets.

4. Improving fisheries management. Seafish’s ambition is that over the next ten years all commercial fisheries will be managed via Fisheries Management Plans (FMPs).

5. Enabling supply chain resilience. Seafish aims to equip businesses to respond and adapt when issues emerge.

6. Improving data, insight, and innovation . Seafish’s ambition is to become the centre for analysis and insight on the operation and performance of the seafood supply chain.

1. Championing Industry Reputation. Seafish aims to support the industry to tell a positive story about seafood. “Our non-competitive position working across the supply chain and the UK is a fundamental strength that enables us to provide the support industry needs,” Coleman continued. “It helps us to work in close partnership with all parts of the sector, ensuring we are ready to address the challenges and opportunities an increasingly volatile and evolving landscape create.”

The Seafish Corporate Plan 20232028 has been turned into an interactive video allowing viewers to create playlists based on the information they are most interested in. Visit the interactive video at www.seafish.org/corporate-plan Visit our website www.seafish.org