Email:
tracy [at] consult-poseidon [dot] com
Tracy Murai
Associate Director
Tracy is an Associate Director of Poseidon with over 20 years of experience providing strategic and technical advisory services across the aquatic resource sectors. Tracy holds a BSc in Marine Geography from Solent University and an MSc in Aquatic Resource Management from King’s College London. Her work spans fisheries management, marine policy, ecosystem impacts, responsible sourcing, IUU fishing, social accountability, risk assessment, stakeholder engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and practical implementation support for public institutions, international organisations, NGOs and private sector clients.
Tracy has broad experience across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, working at local, national, regional and international levels with governments, vessel owners, processors, retailers, not-for-profits and multi-stakeholder initiatives. Her recent work includes EU-level studies on traceability and aquaculture, UK public-sector assessments of seafood supply chains, human rights impact assessment, and evaluation and progress reporting for Fishery Improvement Projects. She has also managed multidisciplinary assignments addressing fisheries improvements, labour and welfare standards, marine debris, abandoned/lost/discarded fishing gear, bycatch issues and electronic monitoring.
Before joining Poseidon, Tracy held senior roles with Thai Union Group and WWF, where she led global fisheries sustainability programmes, vessel-level assessment programmes, partnerships and initiatives across tuna, small pelagics and aquaculture supply chains. She is a Lead Auditor for ISO 17065 and SA8000 and has conducted assessments of production systems and supply chains. Her field and ecology experience, including reef, fish, octopus, invertebrate and marine mammal work, gives her a practical understanding of marine ecosystems that underpins her approach to sustainable aquatic resource management. Her technical strengths lie in translating complex environmental, regulatory and social requirements into practical, evidence-based approaches for policy makers, industry stakeholders and collaborative initiatives.
Tracy’s work has included:
UK: Human Rights Impact Assessments and Establishment of Action Plans for the UK Nephrops & Scallop Supply Chains. Identification of the salient risks of the two fisheries utilising stakeholder engagement and desk-based research, combined with evaluation of the likelihood of said risks, and their potential mitigations (Seafish, 2025 - 2026).
UK: Assessment of UK Industry Practices and Animal Numbers in Decapod and Cephalopod Supply Chains. Investigation into the UK live supply chains of decapods and cephalopods, as well as supported the development of a conversion metric to enable approximate quantification of the number of animals traded live (Defra, 2025 - 2026).
Global: The potential to reduce the carbon footprint in tuna vessels for seafood business (2022 - 2023).
Thailand: Commercial fishing sector survey and assessment of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear Report. In collaboration with the GGGI using the UN data collection template (trial) (2021).
Global: Project to replace the wild caught fish component of feed for shrimp production to reduce carbon footprint and social sustainability concerns, also increasing traceability assurance (2019).
Global: Design, management and implementation of one of the world’s leading private company-led Fisher Work and Welfare Program [for Thai Union Group] (2017-2024).
EU: Led technical inputs, authored, and fundraised for a collaborative project between WWF, Oceana, the Environmental Justice Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust to publish the British Standard Institute PAS 1550: exercising due diligence in establishing the legal origin of seafood products and marine ingredients (2017).
Global: For Thai Union Group’s supply chain design and implementation of actions to improve the sustainability of source fisheries (e.g. Fishery Improvement Projects) and deliver increased volumes of fisheries to meet the Marine Stewardship Council fisheries and chain of custody standards. Engagement of vessel owners, captains and other stakeholders (including governments) in need for improvements to legislation, management and fishing practices (2014 - 2024).
Global: Supply chain auditing social, environmental, traceability criteria and standards (2007 - ongoing).
Global: Designing programmes and projects to support the delivery of key international instruments: the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on Migratory Species, the ILO Work in Fishing Convention (C188), the EU IUU Regulation, the Sustainable Ocean Initiative, the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights, and the FAO code of conduct on responsible fisheries (2007 - ongoing).