Trident Seafoods

Lobbying and advocacy
Trident Seafoods showcases its commitment to accountability by disclosing a list of trade associations of which is it a member.

Sustainable fishing and aquaculture
Trident Seafoods clearly states that it sources its seafood from Alaska state and U.S. federal fisheries, both of which have some of the most stringent fisheries management systems globally. These systems are designed to prioritize sustainability, making it an essential aspect of the law. Additionally, the company provides two options for certification claims: Alaska Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) and the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

No leading practices were identified in the nutrition area.

Child labour
Trident Seafoods verifies the age of workers recruited in its own operations, emphasizing its commitment to labour employment practices and compliance with labour regulations.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has made a public commitment to respect the health and safety of its workers and expects the same from its business relationships. It also discloses demographic information about its direct operations workforce, breaking down employee categories by race or ethnicity.

Respect human rights
The company shows engagement with stakeholders whose human rights could be affected by its operations. It provides a human rights grievance mechanism that is accessible to all of its workers as well as external stakeholders who may be negatively impacted by the company’s activities.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups, beyond its materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company has an opportunity to disclose sustainability strategy with nature and social-related targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in Scope 1 and 2 and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Plastic use and packaging waste
Trident Seafoods has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Sustainable fishing and aquaculture
Although the company demonstrates a commitment to sustainable fishing and aquaculture, it could enhance its efforts by offering measurable data that indicates an improvement in these practices. In particular, the company should consider disclosing specific targets for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture for its entire portfolio and actively reporting progress towards achieving these targets.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment and commercial activities to improve the accessibility and affordability of nutritious foods.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it is improving the nutritional quality of its products and to set targets to increase the share of more nutritious products in its portfolio.

Clear and transparent labelling
The company has an opportunity to adopt front-of-pack labels or other consumer-facing nutrition labels that assist consumers in making healthier food choices. Furthermore, the company can take advantage of the chance to disclose the percentage of products or menus that have implemented its front-of-pack labeling schemes.

Food safety
The company has a chance to showcase that all of its own operations are certified to a GFSI food safety scheme or another widely recognized (industry-specific) certification. Additionally, the company has an opportunity to disclose the percentage of food suppliers that are certified to a GFSI-recognized food safety scheme.

Responsible marketing
The company has an opportunity to provide evidence of marketing activities to promote heathier and more nutritious food options (in accordance with a government-endorsed or externally validated nutritional guidelines).

Workforce nutrition
While the company offers a nutrition education program for external stakeholders, there is an opportunity to engage its employees as participants. Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose evidence of workforce nutrition programmes.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts. While the company has in place expectations on the prohibition of child labour for its suppliers, it could disclose related policy requirements including the use of an age verification for workers.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company discloses a goal to support independent fishermen and strengthen the connections with them through new and innovative means of working together but it could demonstrate how it improves their income resilience through its procurement practices and supply chain relationships. Also, it has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Living wage
The company has an opportunity to set a target for paying a living wage across its direct suppliers and describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it sources. Also, it could disclose the percentage of workers across its own operations or suppliers that are paid a living wage.

Act ethically
The company has the opportunity to detail the process it uses to identify bribery and corruption risks in specific operational areas or activities. Also, the company has the opportunity to formalize anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business partners. While it has some mechanisms for stakeholders to raise concerns about bribery and corruption, it hasn’t disclosed whether these can be done without fear of reprisal. The company could formalize its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy, and specifically indicate whether it refrains from making political contributions. Additionally, it could disclose its expenditures related to lobbying and specify that third-party lobbyists must comply with its policy on lobbying and political engagement.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company maintains health and safety standards, it could disclose specific methods for monitoring the health and safety performance of its suppliers. On the issue of wages, although it pays the minimum wage, the company has room to commit to paying a living wage by establishing a time-bound target and outlining how it calculates living wages in different regions. Additionally, it could disclose strategies for ensuring its suppliers also pay a living wage. Regarding gender equality and women’s empowerment, the company could make a public commitment and set time-bound targets, including achieving a representation of at least 30% women in its highest governing body. Lastly, the company could provide more transparency by disclosing the gender pay gap across different employee categories and locations.

Respect human rights
In its global human rights policy, the company pledges to treat all employees, suppliers, and partners with dignity and respect, but lacks a publicly approved statement explicitly committing to human rights. While it has policies that commit to specific workers’ rights, the company misses the opportunity to align these with all the ILO core labour rights, both for its own operations and suppliers. The company could improve by detailing how it identifies and assesses human rights risks in specific locations or activities, including those in its supply chain. Additionally, it could be more transparent by disclosing the results of its human rights risk assessments and establishing a global system to address, prevent, or mitigate its most pressing human rights concerns.