At the Round Table there was a suggestion that the parent body of the international retail consortium - CIES - responsible for the GFSI benchmarking of private food safety management schemes, might take on such a task. A participant with direct links to CIES considered that while CIES would probably be interested in being involved in such an exercise it was unlikely to want to lead it. It was also noted that many retailers do not have specific expertise in the fisheries area.