What about action?

• Buy sustainable seafood as consumers
• Brands should use simple, understandable messages to motivate consumer sustainable choices
• Help businesses make their commitments meaningful
• Need to work together as an industry
• Acceleration requires political will
• Industry should support the development of appropriate regulatory infrastructure
• Continue expanding the reach of standards and laballing organisations to those data deficient or in unregulated areas
• Develop a more central 'convening space' for greater range of stakeholders to share and develop initiatives
• Advocate and collaborate for solutions beyond the existing

What is the potential for labelling and standards organisations to contribute to the challenges we've discussed?

• They have got a part to play but they are not the panacea
• They connect producers with end consumer through multi stakeholder engagement
• They are applicable around the world
• They simplify action for consumers by giving them clear guidance
• They can adapt in time to the evolving concept of sustainability
• They can reach fisheries that would be otherwise overlooked by governments
• They give clear targets and third party recognition to fisheries
• They can effectively harness market forces to promote sustainable production
• They can use "emotion + evidence + reassurance" formula to engage consumers

What are the different challenges for large-scale industrial fishing and small-scale fisheries?

• Management is what matters in either kind
• Solutions for small-scale are more complex as they typically involve larger number of individuals or vessels, are poorer and often more disadvantaged
• Both kinds face enforcement issues. Large-scale are far off-shore while small-scale are more numerous.

Who should be doing what? How can different stakeholders contribute? 

• Brand owners/processors should ensure a higher amount of sustainable fish enters the market
• Greater communication along the supply chain
• Stronger prevention through collaboration
• Operationalizing outcomes from global dialogue, moving towards action while tracking outcomes and reporting on them
• Consumer/public education and empowerment to encourage sustainable choices
• Governments need to take accountability
• Join NGO forces in areas of consensus for greater resource efficiency
• Businesses should work harder on full supply chain traceability
• Cost-sharing to prevent "race to the bottom"

What about solutions? What initiatives are making most impact?

• Global initiatives like the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
• Need for international intervention at a greater scale
• Rebuilding fisheries while keeping tight control of limits on fishing will reduce time spent at the sea
• Understanding the issue deeply, collecting better data
• Adhering to Harvest Control Rules and Port State Measures Agreement
• Greater collaboration in the private sectory and advocacy
• Initiatives like The Ocean Cleanup and Blue Planet help creating a sense of urgency
• Improving management and efficiency through more data sharing among stakeholders
• Best practice sharing is important among organisations making great progress already

What have been the barriers holding up progress of SDG14?

• Need to breakdown issues into manageable problems to tackle
• Lack of political will
• Short term thinking
• Stronger cooperation along value chains is needed
• Lack of emotional connection with the oceans, their vast scale and large unknowns. Need to connect people with the sea.
• Getting the right stakeholders "in the room" to tackle the issues
• Need for science-based decision-making and better data
• Need for better enforcement, monitoring, control and market-based programmes, all playing their part

Climate change, pollution and overfishing - which of these three big issues is the most important to address?

• There is not one that is more important to address than the others
• Climate change highlighted as most important but most challenging as well
•  Overfishing and pollution may be more controllable at the moment
• Tools are readily more available to fight overfishing
•  Ending overfishing contributes to ocean health and reduces impact of other stressors
• Highlighted Importance of looking at the issues together