Dongwon Enterprise

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

No leading practices were identified in the ecosystems area.

No leading practices were identified in the traceability area.

No leading practices were identified in the social responsibility area.

Provide and promote decent work
Dongwon Enterprise discloses how it monitors the health and safety performance of its business relationships and reports the proportion of women in its total direct operations workforce for each employee category.

Sustainability strategy
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to disclose a sustainability strategy with ecosystem, traceability and social-related targets.

Accountability for sustainability strategy
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to report on sustainability accountability within its governance structure.

Stakeholder engagement
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to disclose how it engages with stakeholders, the issues raised during such activities, and the outcomes of its stakeholder engagement.

Lobbying and advocacy
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on sustainability-related issues, and whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to provide evidence of a commitment to sustainable seafood and the environmental criteria it uses for its seafood operations and sourcing.

Ecosystem impacts of fisheries
Dongwon Enterprise participates in three Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs) and one of Dongwon’s fisheries is currently undergoing assessment by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The company is also a member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). Nevertheless, Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability efforts by demonstrating how it mitigates impacts across 100% of its operations and/or supply chain.

Traceability systems and commitments for seafood products and aquaculture feed ingredients
Dongwon Enterprise previously endorsed the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) standard through its membership of Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS). However, Dongwon Enterprise does not provide a description of the systems it has in in place to trace and verify the origins of seafood products. Therefore, the company has an opportunity to strengthen its commitment to traceability by making a time-bound commitment to implement the GDST standards and disclose more information about how it currently traces its seafood products.

Risk-based approach to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing
Dongwon Enterprise indicates that it follows coastal state regulations, has Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified operations and is engaged in Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs). Moreover, as a member of Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS), the company engages in concerted efforts to help reduce IUU fishing. However, the company has an opportunity to demonstrate it has a tool in a place to assess IUU risks in its operations and supply chains and how it addresses any identified risks.

Disclosure of the source of seafood products and marine feed ingredients
Dongwon Enterprise does not disclose information about the source of its seafood products. Dongwon Enterprise can improve its performance by disclosing a full overview of the sources of all its products, including additional information such as management status, geographic location, species and production method.

Forced Labour
Dongwon Enterprise 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.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve fishers’ income resilience.

Working and living conditions on board fishing vessels
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to demonstrate that it has measures in place to ensure decent working and living conditions, specifically on board fishing vessels, through monitoring and mitigation.

Respect human rights
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to human rights by disclosing a policy statement that respects fundamental human rights, and the International Labour Organization (ILO) fundamental rights at work, in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe the process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, including its suppliers, as well as the process for assessing and identifying its salient human right issues. Moreover, the company could establish a global system to address these salient human rights issues by implementing preventive, mitigative, or remedial measures.

Provide and promote decent work
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to workers’ health and safety by disclosing a policy statement and extending this expectation to its business relationships. Additionally, it could set a time-bound target for ensuring all workers receive a living wage, describes the living wage determination methodology, and discloses strategies to support suppliers in paying a living wage.

Furthermore, the company could commit to gender equality and women’s empowerment and disclose related targets. It could also disclose the representation of women on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Act ethically
Dongwon Enterprise has an opportunity to disclose a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption and to include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its business relationships’ contracts. Additionally, it can establish a process to identify risks and impacts related to bribery and corruption, along with a grievance mechanism for stakeholder complaints. Furthermore, the company can demonstrate ethical conduct by publishing a policy statement that outlines its approach to lobbying and political engagement and emphasizes its non-participation in political contributions, or alternatively, states the criteria of exceptions. It could also transparently disclose all lobbying expenditures.