Greenpeace is lauding a new interim policy from NGO FishChoice that it says provides an effective auditing mechanism for forced labor, child labor and human trafficking that could be occurring in the Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) listed on its platform.

The policy is much stronger than the MSC's Chain of Custody standard, which Greenpeace and other NGOs say lacks any meaningful complaint mechanism, Andy Shen, a senior oceans advisor at Greenpeace USA, told IntraFish.

FishChoice has contacts for more than 600 seafood companies and supplies its members with sustainability details on 5,000 seafood products, according to its website.