The Asian Seafood Improvement Collaborative (ASIC) is a Singapore-based social enterprise that created a stakeholder engagement platform to build tools to foster improvements. ASIC has succeeded in developing tools that are designed to help fisheries and shrimp aquaculture improve from the bottom up as well as to recognize innovations and high levels of environmental and social performance where they exist. In addition to the benefits for producers, ASIC provides buyers with seafood from sources that can demonstrate verified improvements that are credible and come with a powerful story.

ASIC helps producers implement improvement programs (which includes technology integration) that can be recognized on global markets by buyers with sustainability commitments as well as those that are interested in more stable supply chains and a reduced risk of social impacts and seafood fraud. ASIC was built in Asia by Asian stakeholders and represents one of the first efforts to create an organization that can give producers a voice to tell their stories and foster improvement. The voluntary commitment includes continuing to build tools with stakeholders and recognize better performance where it exists in Asia. More information at www.asicollaborative.org.