Pack n'Track replaces the binders, the spreadsheets, and the multiple programs you're juggling with one screen that anyone on your team can use. Every form your buyer wants. Every report your inspector asks for. Already filled in by the time you need it — because Pack n'Track wrote it down the first time, starting with the fish coming off the boat. Built by people who hate paperwork as much as you do, for the FDA, CFIA, NOAA, DFO, and MSC rules you can't escape.
The FDA wants one thing. Canadian inspectors want another. Your US importer wants paperwork before the truck leaves. The auditor shows up in two weeks. Most plants are juggling all of it across multiple programs, a binder, and a spreadsheet someone built in 2014. Pack n'Track does all five at once — from the same data, entered once, starting at the dock.
The new US traceability rule for seafood and other foods on FDA's Traceability List. By July 2028, the FDA wants a sortable spreadsheet you can hand over within 24 hours showing where every lot came from, what happened to it in your plant, and where it shipped. Pack n'Track writes that spreadsheet automatically as you work — every time fish lands, every time it gets processed, every time it ships.
Selling tuna, swordfish, Atlantic cod, or any of the other SIMP-listed species to a US buyer? Your importer has to file harvest and chain-of-custody data with US Customs electronically — and they need that data from you. Pack n'Track packages the harvest event, vessel, gear, area, and chain-of-custody records straight from your receiving data. One button. Hand it to your importer. Done. No retyping. No 10 PM scramble before the truck leaves.
SFCR Section 90 requires one-up-one-back traceability records. Section 91 requires you to produce them within 24 hours when an inspector asks. Pack n'Track captures the receiving, processing, and shipping records that make up those traceability records as the work happens — with optional processing modules carrying integrated organoleptic sampling against CFIA-recognized criteria. Vessel licenses, supplier certifications, lab results, condition-on-arrival photos, customs paperwork attach to the lot they belong to through the device camera. The inspector's request gets answered the same morning. Printable paper versions of every form exist for the day the wifi goes down and the boats are coming in.
If you're a licensed buyer in the Maritimes, you have to report every fish purchase to DFO electronically through ESLIPs — the Electronic Purchase Slip system on DFO's FISH Portal. Other regions are coming. Pack n'Track captures the species, weights, harvester, vessel, and sale price at receiving and exports the DFO-formatted Excel file ready for upload. Pick a date range, generate the file, log in to FISH, submit. The data your captain and your settlements need is already in the same record.
The MSC Chain of Custody Standard runs on five principles: certified product comes from certified suppliers, stays identifiable, stays segregated from non-certified, stays traceable with volume reconciliation, and is governed by a documented management system. Pack n'Track does the records side: certified flag on every lot, segregation enforced through receiving and processing, input-to-output mass balance preserved across every transformation, supplier linkage carried forward. The auditor walks in — the records pull up by lot, by date, by certificate number. Same playbook covers the ASC CoC module if you handle aquaculture-certified.
Someone weighs a tote at receiving. Pack n'Track knows the vessel, the harvest area, the species, and the lot number all by itself. That same entry shows up on the DFO purchase slip, the FDA traceability spreadsheet, your importer's SIMP data file, the BOL, and your settlement statement. No retyping. No double-checking. No "where did I put that?"
Your US importer needs harvest data, vessel info, and chain-of-custody records for every SIMP-listed shipment — tuna, swordfish, Atlantic cod, and the other listed species. Pack n'Track packages all of it from the data you already entered when the fish landed. Pull up the shipment. Click. Send the file to your importer. Done before lunch.
Halibut goes in vats, fletch goes on racks, lobster goes in crates, hake goes in totes, swordfish gets graded one at a time. Pack n'Track has a separate screen for each one, with the buttons and the fields the people on that line actually need. No generic forms. No filling in "N/A" twenty times. Each module looks like the job it's tracking.
Dock slip, vessel log, license, MSC certificate, lab result, customs paperwork, photo of damaged product when it came in — any file, any format. Tap once, the camera opens, take the picture, it's filed against the right lot. When the inspector asks where the paperwork is, it's two taps away. Not in a binder in the back office that someone has to dig through.
The driver is at the loading dock. The shipping clerk clicks one button. Out comes a single PDF with the Bill of Lading, the invoice for US customers, the customs paperwork, and the packing list — all stitched together, properly named, ready to print or email. The MSC certificate number is on there. The container type is right. The customer's address is right. Driver signs, truck leaves.
One landing comes in. The fish goes a dozen places — some H&G, some fletched, some sold whole, some held, some ended up in cheek packs. At settlement time you get one clean PDF: this is what you landed, this is what each species became, this is what got shipped, this is what you got paid. The captain and the owner-operator stop arguing about numbers because the numbers all came from the same source.
The wifi at the wharf is unreliable. The cell tower goes down. The internet at your plant drops out at 6 AM on the worst possible morning. Pack n'Track keeps working. Everything you enter on your phone or tablet saves to the device. When the connection comes back, it syncs everything automatically. There are also printable paper versions of every form for the days nothing electronic is working at all.
FDA's new rule asks for a record of what happens between the boat (or the farm) and the truck leaving your loading dock. For seafood, the wild-caught chain starts at First Land-Based Receiver (§1.1335) and aquaculture enters as a raw agricultural commodity. Pack n'Track captures every required Key Data Element as the work is being done — not at the end of the week, not when someone remembers. When the FDA asks for the spreadsheet, you click export. The CFR sections are below for the compliance officer who has to file it.
Your US importer of record holds the International Fisheries Trade Permit (IFTP) and files SIMP data with US Customs through the ACE system at entry. They need harvest-to-entry data and two years of chain-of-custody records from you. Pack n'Track packages all of it from your existing receiving and processing records — ready to hand to your importer or their broker.
Every customer gets the foundation — the records, the reports, the inventory, the shipping paperwork — in one connected system.
Then you turn on screens for the species you actually run. Halibut, lobster, snow crab, hake, swordfish, tuna, groundfish. Each one looks like the job. Don't process lobster? You don't see the lobster screens. Simple.
Pack n'Track is built and maintained by people actually working the boats and the docks, manning the processing lines or back office personnel inside active CFIA-certified processing plants. Every feature exists because someone on the deck, the dock, on the line or in back office needed it that morning — not because a software manager drew a story on a whiteboard.
Big tap targets. One screen per task. Offline PWA mode because the wifi goes down at six in the morning and the boats don't wait for anything. The built in reports answer the questions the inspectors and auditors actually ask.
Give us twenty minutes. Tell us what you process and what's eating up your week. We open the live system on your screen and walk through it from the boat to the BOL with your species, your buyers, and your problems. No slide decks. No salesperson talking past you. If it fits, you'll know. If it doesn't, you'll know that too.