Our client is in the south bay area of Northern California and are very committed to purchasing local sustainable seafood for their corporate food service program. They feel that it is most responsible to purchase seafood from small local fisheries in the San Francisco Bay Area. They rigorously adhere to the guidelines provided by the Monterey Bat Aquarium. They have found that the Marine Stewardship Council program is more typical of larger commercial fisheries and not available through their sources. We would like to propose the following documentation and process as an alternate compliance path for the the purchase of seafood under MR c5 - Sustainable Purchasing Food.

Here is a description of the program that they follow:

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has established ongoing education for chefs and general consumers of seafood. They have developed a list of seafood items and classified them showing what is sustainable at the time and what is in danger of being overfished.

We follow their "Seafood Watch List" and track our purchases with terms Green, Yellow and Red proceeding the product description in our purchasing system. We then run reports that we call GYR reports each month to track our progress.

In our purchasing system we are very specific in our descriptions to the vendors regarding:
- Origin of product
- Catch Method

Should we do an alternative compliance? CIR? Maybe even an innovation credit?