Healthcheck Sustainability Indicator Reporting for Australian Fisheries

Verification of fisheries sustainability credentials is essential to increase consumer confidence, market access and community benefit. Sector performance currently centres on monitoring fish stocks and economic performance. However, markets and stakeholder organisations increasingly require traceable evidence of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) indicators such as provenance, safety, diversity, animal welfare, carbon, biodiversity to inform decisions. To meet this need, this project activates CSIROs Healthcheck ESG Fisheries data system by engaging industry and Indigenous leaders, management agencies and researchers to identify targeted indicators, collect data, prioritise data gaps to enable more comprehensive ESG reporting.The reporting system is designed to collect and report data which is ready for ingestion into existing catalogues and exchanges (e.g., Ag Food data Exchange). Data is compatible and interoperable for publishing to recognised sustainability framework reporting (e.g. Status of Australian Fish Stocks, Marine Stewardship Certification, National Fisheries Plan, UN SDGs, Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure, Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework, Agricultural Innovation Australia (AIA) Environmental Accounting Platform), and ready for supplying relevant indicators and data for Australia’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Sustainability Framework development.We demonstrate the capability of this sustainability data reporting system with selected fisheries. New indicators address climate impacts and adaptation responses, food safety systems, modern slavery protections, sector-led initiatives to improve ESG outcomes, Indigenous sector participation and economic development, among others. Using and building new digital and LLM (large language model) technologies to identify, screen and verify data sources, the sustainability reporting data system reflects global standards in traceability of data itself. Data provenance pipelines provide a pathway for repeatable, routine data extraction and reporting, and increase data accessibility for the Australian fisheries sector. Construction of these pipelines has highlighted critical gaps to address and what actions to take to overcome remaining limitations on data accessibility and shareability for key ESG reporting areas.

验证渔业可持续资质，对于提升消费者信心、拓展市场准入以及增进社区福祉至关重要。
当前渔业领域的绩效评估主要围绕鱼类种群监测与经济表现展开。
然而，市场与利益相关方组织愈发需要可溯源的环境、社会及治理（Environmental, Social and Governance, ESG）相关证据，涵盖产品溯源、安全合规、物种多样性、动物福利、碳排放、生物多样性等指标，以供决策参考。
为满足这一需求，本项目通过联动产业界、原住民领袖、管理机构与科研人员，明确靶向指标、收集数据并梳理数据缺口优先级，以推动更全面的ESG报告编制，从而激活澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO）的渔业ESG健康检查数据系统。
本报告系统专为收集与报送数据而设计，所获数据可直接接入现有目录与数据交换平台（如Ag Food数据交换平台）。
该数据具备兼容性与互操作性，可用于向已获认可的可持续发展框架报送报告，包括《澳大利亚鱼类种群现状报告》、海洋可持续捕捞认证、《国家渔业计划》、联合国可持续发展目标（Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs）、自然相关财务信息披露工作组（Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure, TNFD）、澳大利亚农业可持续发展框架，以及澳大利亚农业创新署（AIA）环境核算平台；同时可为澳大利亚渔业与水产养殖可持续发展框架的制定提供相关指标与数据支持。
我们通过选取若干渔业案例，验证了本可持续发展数据报告系统的功能。
新增指标涵盖气候影响与适应措施、食品安全体系、现代奴隶制防控、旨在提升ESG绩效的产业主导举措、原住民产业参与度与经济发展等多个维度。
通过应用并研发新型数字技术与大语言模型（Large Language Model, LLM）来识别、筛选与验证数据源，本可持续发展报告系统在数据自身溯源方面契合全球标准。
数据溯源流程可为常态化、可重复的数据提取与报告报送提供路径，并提升澳大利亚渔业领域的数据可及性。
该溯源流程的搭建也明确了亟需解决的关键数据缺口，以及为克服关键ESG报告领域在数据可及性与共享性方面尚存的限制所需采取的行动。