Tracing fishy risks with blockchain tech amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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COVID-19 is the devastating peak that has devastated huguyity this century. Every day, the number of patients infected with coronavirus is expanding internationally and is making the largest number of huguy in the United States. The highly infectious virus first contracted in November 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province, through contact between a horseshoe and a boy at Huanan Seafood Market.

Many of the first COVID-19 patients were post owners, market workers, or regular market visitors, who temporarily developed a serious respiratory disease. Despite the market’s closure, on January 1, 2020, the virus has spread through the air during exhalation, verbal exchange and coughing through microdrops small enough to remain in the air, spreading to more than two hundred countries and regions of the world.

Seafood is a major source of food, offering food to billions of other people, as well as fish and animals around the world. It is one of the largest industries in the world, generating about $152 billion in 2017, more of which comes from emerging regions.

China currently accounts for approximately 75% of the global seafood and aquaculture market in terms of volume and value, while India has the largest market share at the moment, followed by Indonesia, Chile, Norway, Japan, South Korea, the United States and the United States. United Kingdom.

At the same time, shellfish are riddled with bad practices, adding fraud, incorrect product labelling, tax evasion, pricing and mismanagement of fisheries:

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the demanding situations and deficiencies in the global chain of seafood sources, according to a report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. With the emergence of the pandemic, fishing corporations closed overnight, processing services ceased or particularly reduced their operations, restaurants closed and markets eventually ran out. As entire fishing fleets hung their nets, the products remained stranded around the world, making it difficult to export seafood. In addition, countries have imposed border and industrial restrictions and intensified inspections of fishery products. This added to the unrest of the industry, as COVID-19 has mysteriously spread to fishing vessels and remedy services, with primary implications of physical and monetary fitness around the world.

China’s General Customs Administration began mass testing of seafood imports at ports and blocked shipments of fisheries that reported infections among workers, i.e. after samples from The Sustainable Shrimp Partnership, an organization of certified shrimp importers from Ecuador and the Global Salmon Initiative, an organization of Chilean salmon importers. The matrix tested positive for the new coronavirus, either internal or external to the packet.

The population of 190,000 inhabitants of Dalian, a fishing net of 6.7 million people in Liaoning Province, China, was also re-revised to detect COVID-19 and quarantined after a wave of outbreaks related to a shellfish processing business was reported after the first outbreak. one hundred days earlier Intensive testing of shellfish, other products and others for coronavirus have tripled clearance times in some primary Chinese ports, making global flows in the fishing industry difficult.

In Argentina, fitness officials are suffering from the perceived disease inflated 57 of the 61 sailors in good physical condition while at sea for 35 days. Alejandra Alfaro, Director of Primary Health Care at Tierra del Fuego, said:

It is difficult to see how the computer was infected, since for 35 days they had no contact with the mainland. Supplies were only transported from the port of Ushuaia. [The virus] went in somewhere. We have to think it was a human touch or a contact with goods, products, supplies.

Alfaro added: “We know that for 35 days, no one, or no new entrance, was given on the ship. Obviously, something happened, possibly there would have been some degree of internal contagion on the ship that was not recorded.

In the U.S., the first major COVID-19 outbreak occurred aboard the Seattle-based American Seafoods’ “American Dynasty.” The huge fishing vessel hosts an onboard fish-processing factory and operates in the Pacific Northwest, which has the highest seafood production, at 25% of global landings. Similarly to the Argentinian case, nearly 75% of the onboard crew (92 out of 126) tested positive for COVID-19, even though all fishermen tested negative when they boarded the ship. American Seafoods is one of the biggest players in the billion-dollar fishery for Alaska pollock, which goes into products like the McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwiches.

A recent report indicates that the prevalence of COVID-19 in ships “is likely to be particularly underestimated, and methods are needed to evaluate and monitor all passengers in order to save network transmission after disembarkation.

More than 120 workers at Oregon-based Pacific Seafood, a Newport seafood processing plant, also tested positive for the virus in an outbreak so large it contributed to Oregon’s highest single-day count of new cases since the start of the pandemic.

The owners of a seafood processor in Juneau, Alaska thought they did everything right to keep their business safely running during the pandemic. However, even with mandatory COVID-19 screening and a two-week quarantine for out-of-state staff, the virus still found its way into the facility. Alaskan seafood processors are consistently seeing large outbreaks as the rise in COVID-19 infections continues, according to state officials. Dr. Joe McLaughlin, Alaska’s State Epidemiologist, said: 

Alaska is currently experiencing three large, separate outbreaks of COVID-19 in the seafood industry. These outbreaks are reminiscent of the meat packing plant outbreaks in the Lower 48 and stress the importance of vigilant symptom screening and prompt facility-wide testing in congregate work settings when index cases are identified.

Ensuring the safety and quality of seafood products in the U.S. is a joint effort of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and State regulatory agencies.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, has the primary federal responsibility for the safety of seafood products in the U.S., which adopted a regulation that requires all seafood processors to utilize a science-based system of preventive food safety controls known as Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point. 

However, other federal agencies also play a role in ensuring the safety of certain seafood products.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, OR USDA, has a regulation called country of origin labeling, designed to ensure that seafood held in branches is classified to identify your home country.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, a component of the U.S. Trade Decomposer, is guilty of controlling the country’s fisheries resources in U.S. territorial waters. And he also administers a voluntary seafood inspection and sorting program. It calls for seafood traceability to the threat of illegal fishing and seafood fraud through the U.S. Seafood Import Monitoring Program, which lately applies to thirteen imported fish species, adding blue crab, cod and tuna, tracking them from the boat on the U.S. border. . 90% of seafood fed in the United States is imported, but 0.1% is inspected through federal agencies.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, conducts foodborne disease research, provides recommendations to the medical network, and “advises employers and staff conducting seafood processing operations on land and ship services at sea,” and uses Oracle blockchain and IBM Cloud to their COVID-19 knowledge collection efforts.

These federal agencies paint in combination to provide consistent criteria and regulations for seafood and the various commercial sectors that fish, cultivate, harvest and deliver to consumers. Food safety has become even more critical in the pandemic, with FDA spokesman Peter Cassell saying:

“We have no evidence that Covid-19, a respiratory virus, is transmitted food or food packaging.”

Fraud disorders in the U.S. fishing industry have been exacerbated through the pandemic. In response, the Department of Justice set up a new working group and suggested that others report COVID-19-like fraud. Studies after studies have demonstrated the lifestyles of fraud in the U.S. fishing industry: the New York Attorney General’s Office found that more than 25% of fishery products in the state’s supermarkets were poorly labelled; an exam conducted through the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount found that almost a portion of the sushi served in Los Angeles was not what it intended to be; In its investigation into shellfish fraud, the Oceana Oceans Protection Foundation found that 21% of the fish analyzed, species not included in the existing federal traceability program, were poorly labeled. Beth Lowell, Assistant Vice President of American Campaigns at Oceana, explained:

It is transparent that shellfish fraud remains a challenge in the United States, and our government will have to do more to combat this once and for all. In the end, seafood fraud deceives consumers suffering from bait and change, hides the risks of conservation and physical fitness, and harms fair fishermen and seafood companies. Seafood traceability, from the pot to the plate, is essential to ensure that all seafood sold in the United States is safe, legally caught and labeled fairly.

Blockchain generation authenticates seafood ownership, makes it traceable, and facilitates virtual transfer. However, some fishing corporations found that this generation was applicable to their operations.

Phillip Carawan, the owner, president and CEO of Captain Neill’s Seafood Inc., is serving a criminal sentence after pleading guilty in federal court for the fees his company, under his command, fraudulently classified more than 179,872 pounds of foreign blue. crab meat more than $4 million as a “product of the United States”. Blue crab is a species popularly exported locally to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Between at least 2012 and 2015, the company sold counterfeit crab meat to wholesale clubs such as Costco and Sam’s Club, as well as major retailers.

A Virginia blue crab supplier has also been accused of cutting a total of 398,000 pounds of blue crab harvested in Chesapeake Bay with discounted crab meat from Indonesia and Brazil, while labeling it as a U.S. product. The value of the meat is approximately $14 million.

Roy Tuccillo Sr., his son Roy Tuccillo Jr.with his food processing and distribution companies, Anchor Frozen Foods Inc. and Advanced Frozen Foods Inc., pleaded guilty to the conspiracy to devote cord fraud to carrying 113,000 pounds of squid and promoting them as octopus to more than 10 supermarkets.

Carlos Rafael, “The Codfather,” is serving a criminal sentence for promoting more than 782,000 pounds of counterfeit cod and for tax evasion, while in much of New England’s fishing fleet.

MSeafood, a U.S. subsidiary of Minh Pha Seafood Corp, is being investigated by the U.S. federal government. For violating national industry laws. The company evaded anti-dumping taxes on 57,700 tons of hot water frozen shrimp, worth $643 million, loaded from India to the United States, Vietnam.

Blockchain generation enables direct asset trading by providing confidence in transactions and reducing uncertainty by using reliable self-executing code. From the perspective of festival politics, this generation creates opportunities for the festival and efficiency, but also presents dangers of anti-competitive behavior.

The 3 most sensible leaders in the North American canned seafood industry, whose sales of canned tuna and fishery products that accumulate in times of economic hardship are:

These corporations not only hint at their tuna products through blockchain technology, but are also members of the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Tuna tenure statement. However, they all pleaded guilty to the penalties of criminals after Chicken of the Sea whistled to avoid paying heavy criminal fines. Earlier this year, Chris Lischewski, the former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods, sentenced to 40 months in prison and fined $100,000.

With the emergence of the global pandemic COVID-19, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has published a report entitled “Application of blockchain in shellfish chains” to raise awareness between the government and the foreign network about the role of blockchain. tracking seafood labelling and fraud. in addition to providing reliable knowledge and origin of products in the fishing industry for widespread blockchain adoption to occur. The report guided the fishing industry in the Global Seafood Traceability Dialogue and published first-world criteria for tracking shellfish from point of origin to point of sale to determine the authenticity of the food product and validate the producer’s sustainability efforts.

So far, product standards body MarinTrust has announced plans to mandate recording of key data about fish byproducts for traceability and outlined its vision for blockchain’s role. Many seafood companies have joined blockchain initiatives, such as IBM’s blockchain-based Food Trust, Envisible’s Wholechain system, the VeChain Blockchain Traceability Platform, Australia-based Two Hands and Norway-based SeafoodChain AS.

Nevertheless, according to two recent studies, there is still a need for a global network of real-time human disease surveillance systems, which can be based on the use of blockchain technology to track the spread of COVID-19 via the seafood value chain across the world.

The global markets are under pressure again as investors are waiting to see of the new fiscal stimulus is approved. The European stocks are sliding down, while the US index futures also edge down. 

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Bitcoin has had its best week since mid-2019. The first digital currency gained over 18% in a single week and hit the new highest level of 2020. At the time of writing, BTC/USD is changing hands at $11,358 and the upside momentum is gaining traction as Bitcoin bulls are pushing at the upper line of the weekly Bollinger Band. 

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