CHAINPARENCY AND GOLDFISH ANNOUNCE SIGNING OF MOU AND ENHANCED COMPLIANCE AND DILIGENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SEAFOOD SUPPLY CHAINS
HOUSTON, TX | SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 15, 2024 — Chainparency and Goldfish today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) focused on a new integrated solution offering consisting of Chainparency’s blockchain technology-based supply chain data management, traceability and audit solutions alongside Goldfish’s due diligence and compliance tools for use in seafood supply chains. The signing of the MOU marks is a milestone for both companies seeking to provide comprehensive technology- and data-driven solutions for customers & partners globally.
Sector agnostic, Chainparency has considerable digital technology expertise and experience in a variety of industries and supply chains globally ranging from forestry & wood products, agriculture to food products, including seafood. Chainparency’s solutions help customers authenticate products, validate claims and climate-smart practices, digitize & optimize supply chains, and granularly track & trace assets throughout seafood supply chains. Chainparency maintains customers of all sizes and is actively working with partners like ProNatura Noroeste, part of the ProNatura system (the oldest conservation organization in Mexico), to reimagine and ensure greater transparency and traceability in seafood supply chains and promote the development of thriving marine marine ecosystems and communities in northwest Mexico.
“Seafood companies are under increasing pressure to meet complex regulatory and buyer requirements. Partnering with Chainparency enables us to equip them with augmented traceability that incorporates legal, sustainability and labor risk screening — turning these challenges into a competitive advantage.” — Celeste Leroux, Co-founder and CEO of Goldfish
Goldfish provides compliance data and risk management solutions for seafood supply chains and helps companies to navigate complex regulatory requirements and ensure seafood products do not originate from illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing vessels. The company maintains a vast database that includes over 300,000 fishing and transshipment vessels worldwide, harmonized across 40+ registries, enabling access to vessel names, identifiers, permits, operations, ownership, and crew details for comprehensive vessel tracking. The company’s vessel and IUU data, coupled with Chainparency’s real-time collected supply chain data management, tasking, and traceability capabilities, collectively enables enhanced transparency, regulatory compliance, and traceability throughout global seafood supply chains.
“Incorporating Goldfish data in our products will enable enhanced diligence capabilities and access to comprehensive IUU data, which is essential for mitigating risks and ensuring seafood products are compliant and responsibly-sourced. This unique integrated offering will empower brands to further stand out and meet consumer expectations globally. — Henry Ines, Chainparency CEO
The newly signed MOU enables Chainparency and Goldfish to leverage their respective networks, domain expertise, and technologies to provide robust, scalable, impactful, and high-technology and data-driven solutions for customers in North America and globally.
About Chainparency
Chainparency is on a mission to restore trust through community and technology. The company develops innovative turnkey and modular blockchain-based computer software applications and tools designed to ensure greater transparency, traceability, and accountability in global supply chains. Chainparency’s flagship product is GoTrace: a first-of-a-kind, turnkey, and modular blockchain-based data management, tasking, and traceability platform. A smart phone (Android or iOS) is all that is needed to deploy an end-to-end data collection and traceability solution at scale. Customers utilize GoTrace to validate product claims, optimize supply chains, comply with regulations, and to advance sustainability and climate-smart goals and initiatives. Sector agnostic, Chainparency’s customers operate in a variety of industries & sectors ranging from forestry & wood products, agriculture, energy, mining to consumer-packaged goods. For more information, please visit www.chainparency.com.
About Goldfish
Goldfish is a leading provider of assurance solutions that help supply chains grow while navigating increasingly complex regulatory and market access requirements. Its API delivers authoritative, GS1-compliant data on vessels, fisheries, blacklists and much more, allowing businesses to integrate screening directly into their own tools. Goldfish’s user-friendly products include a new Vessel Lookup that saves experts over 20 minutes per search and customizable Smart Forms with in-line risk screening. For more information on how supply chains can turn compliance from a liability into a brand-defining feature, please visit www.goldfish.io.
