Pacific Seafood Group

No leading practices were identified for the company in the governance and strategy measurement area.

No leading practices were identified for the company in the environment measurement area.

No leading practices were found for the company in the nutrition measurement area.

No leading practices were found for the company in the social inclusion measurement area.

Sustainable development strategy
Pacific Seafoods discloses objectives covering the environment (aquaculture, sustainable seafood certifications, food waste) nutrition, and social inclusion (sustainable labour). However, the company has an opportunity to disclose a sustainable development strategy and how it identifies and prioritises the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainability
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose the governance structure for the implementation of its sustainable development strategy or targets, such as the person, team or committee that holds ultimate responsibility for its implementation.

Stakeholder engagement
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose quantitative evidence to demonstrate that it is reducing its scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions.

Sustainable fishing and aquaculture
While Pacific Seafoods has a commitment to sustainable fishing and aquaculture operations and discloses the number of certified sustainable species and sustainable facilities that have been MSC or BAP certified., the company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by setting targets and reporting against them and disclosing quantitative data that demonstrates progress in its sustainable fishing and aquaculture activities.

Water use
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose that it is reducing water withdrawals across its operations and supply chain.

Food loss and waste
While Pacific Seafoods is addressing food loss and waste in its own operations through Rest Raw Protein Utilization, it has an opportunity to disclose a commitment by setting targets to reduce food loss and waste across its own operations and supply chain and reporting against these targets or also disclosing quantitative data to demonstrate that it is reducing food loss and waste in its own operations and supply chain.

Plastic use and packaging waste
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose that it is reducing its plastic use and transitioning to sustainable forms of packaging.

Availability of healthy foods
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose a commitment or activities to increase the availability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Accessibility and affordability of healthy foods
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose a commitment to address food insecurity by improving the accessibility and affordability of healthy and nutritious foods.

Clear and transparent labelling
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose that it provides nutritional information through clear, transparent and accurate labelling.

Workforce nutrition
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose a workforce nutrition programme that prioritises making healthy foods the standard in the workplace.

Food safety
While Pacific Seafoods discloses compliance with national regulations on Good Hygiene Practices and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System, it has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment by disclosing the percentages of its own operations that are certified to a food safety scheme/certification programme recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative or other widely recognised (industry-specific) certification.

Child labour and forced labour
While Pacific Seafoods prohibits forced labour and child labour in its own operations and supply chain, it has an opportunity to disclose a requirement that prohibits its suppliers from retaining workers’ personal documents and restricting workers’ freedom of movement as well as an age-verification system in place for forced labour and child labour, respectively.

Living wage
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose that it pays its workers a living wage or requires its suppliers to do the same. Neither has it set targets to do so in the future.

Farmer productivity and resilience
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose a commitment or examples of activities to support the resilience, productivity and access to markets for farmers, fishers and/or small-scale producers in its supply chain.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
Pacific Seafoods does not disclose that it specifically recognises the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women, and young farmers.

No explicit policies or formal commitment related to respect for human rights were found in the public domain. As such, Pacific Seafood Group demonstrates a lack of responsibility in protecting basic human rights in its operations and supply chains.

No evidence of explicit policies or commitments related to decent work were found in the public domain. No information on living wage, working hours conditions, or sufficient information on collective bargaining and gender equality have been found in the public domain.
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Pacific Seafood Group discloses a statements on bribery and corruption for suppliers, but there remains an opportunity for it to be strengthened as well as increased disclosure on the topic. Pacific Seafood Group  does not publicly commit to protecting personal data and has not disclosed a privacy statement on the use of personal data. On tax, Pacific Seafood Group provides no information and no publicly available tax strategy was found. In addition, the company does not demonstrate a sufficient commitment to responsible lobbying and political engagement and does not report on key metrics under this topic.