# Seafood Traceability: How to Track Lots

> What seafood traceability from juvenile to customer means, which data to record, how to design lot numbers and how to manage recalls.

- URL: https://demo.fcrsoft.com/en/aquaculture/seafood-traceability
- Language: en
- Updated: 2026-10-03
- Publisher: FCRSOFT (https://fcrsoft.com)

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# Seafood Traceability

Traceability means being able to show, with records, which juvenile batch a product came from, what feed it ate, when it was harvested and who bought it. Exporters and large buyers now require it.
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## Which data should be recorded?

- Juvenile source and stocking date

- Feed lots used and medicine treatments

- Harvest date, cage and quantity

- Processing, packing lot and cold chain

- Customer and shipment details

## Designing lot numbers

Each stage creates a new lot that stays linked to the previous one, so the lot number on a pack leads back through the entire history.
**Automate End-to-End Traceability**Every lot is linked from juvenile to customer; find the affected products within minutes in a recall.
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## Recalls

Finding within minutes which lots are affected by a feed or product problem minimises losses and reputational risk.

## The limits of paper and Excel

When records live in separate files, the links between lots break. End-to-end traceability needs records in one system, connected to each other.
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## FCRSOFT does this for you automatically

You don’t need to do the calculations and checks on this page by hand every day. FCRSOFT derives them all automatically from the records entered in the field.

- Lots and batches are traced from the hatchery to the customer.

- See in one click which raw-material lot went to which customer.

- When a recall is needed, the affected lots are found within minutes.

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Last updated: 10/3/2026

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