Products / Traceability & Chain of Custody
One record, from vessel to the shelf.
Every trip, every transfer, every production line, every shipment — recorded as linked events on the GS1-EPCIS standard, from a verified first-mile origin through to a code on the product. Not documents collected after the fact, but one continuous chain of custody you can follow in either direction.
How it fits together
A few pieces that work as one.
An identity for the raw material
Every fishing trip becomes a Raw Material ID created from vessel, catch and handling data at discharge, before processing begins.
Events on a standard
Every step is recorded as a traceability event — fishing, transshipment, landing, processing, aggregation, shipping, storage — all on GS1-EPCIS, fully GDST-compatible.
A chain you can follow
Because each event links inputs to outputs, the whole path holds together: forward from a vessel to every product it became, or backward from a product code to the trip that produced it.
The anchor
Raw Material IDs.
Every fishing trip becomes a Raw Material ID created from vessel, catch and handling data at discharge, before processing begins. From then on every downstream event, document and product passport references back to it.
Traceability events
Recorded on the standard — not converted to it afterward.
A processing event records what went in and what came out — raw skipjack in, finished cases out — with the quantities, the EPCs on both sides, the parent event it came from, and the observations and positions attached to it.
That's what makes the chain hold: each event is joined to the ones before and after it, so nothing is orphaned. Events can be viewed as data, in a timeline, or exported in GDST form.
Supply chains don't all work the same way.
A container shipment, a longline trip, frozen loins and a raw-material transfer each move differently — so SmarTuna lets you map your own process rather than forcing it into a fixed shape.
Build a chain template once, with the steps named the way your team names them. Each event then knows what it needs, and shows plainly whether it's complete or still waiting on something.
Shipments & containers
Custody doesn't end at the factory gate.
Shipments and containers are tracked through to arrival — port of loading and discharge, ETD and ETA against actuals, carrier and vessel, and the logistics events along the way: loaded, departed, afloat, discharged. Each container links back to the shipments, product passports and Raw Material IDs inside it.
So a container isn't just a box in transit. It's a known set of traced products, with a known origin, arriving on a known date.
Evidence & extra fields
Everything attached where it belongs.
Documents where they belong
Certificates, catch documents and reports are stored against the batch, trip or shipment they relate to, not in a shared drive. They have revisions and typed classification, and are linked to the specific events and proof points they support.
When someone asks for evidence, it’s already attached to the thing they’re asking about.
Room for what the standard doesn’t cover
GDST and EPCIS define a common core. Most operations track more than that — a customer-specific reference, an internal grade, a measurement that matters to one buyer.
Stored alongside the standard fields, so you don’t need a second system and you stay standards-compatible.
The payoff
Recorded once, used everywhere.
Because the chain is built as the product moves, the record is already there when it's needed — for a buyer's question, an audit, a filing, or a consumer using a code.
No reconstructing a chain months later, and no assembling the same evidence twice. See cutting the cost of compliance.
The result
What this means for your business.
Built for the whole ocean
See a chain traced end to end.
SmarTuna works across all oceans, all seafood species, and every major fishing and farming method.
Developed by Pacifical, the team behind the traceability system used by the world's largest MSC-certified purse-seine tuna fishery.