Trident Seafoods

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 ecosystems measurement area.

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

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

Sustainable development strategy
Trident Seafoods does not disclose a sustainable development strategy that includes sustainable development objectives and targets, nor an identification and prioritisation process to determine the topics where it has the most impact.

Governance and accountability for sustainability
Trident 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
Trident Seafoods does not disclose stakeholder engagement activities, including how it selects the stakeholders, nor an overview of the topics discussed or their outcomes.

Engagement in policy advocacy
Trident Seafoods is involved in advocacy activities through its membership of in several industry organisations. The company has an opportunity to explain how its advocacy activities support the implementation of public policies or the strengthening legislation in the seafood industry. Furthermore, it has an opportunity to demonstrate results and/or impacts of its these advocacy activities.

Commitment to sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
While the company has a commitment to sustainable fishing and aquaculture operations and sustainable sourcing of seafood and aquaculture feed ingredients, Trident Seafoods 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.

Ecosystem impacts of fisheries
Trident Seafoods lacks public disclosure about its activities to manage fishing impacts on target and by-catch species. Also, it does not provide information about its impacts on endangered species and sensitive habitats. As such, Trident Seafoods can significantly improve by disclosing how it assesses the ecosystem impacts of its wild-catch operations and how it mitigates any negative impacts.

Ecosystem impacts of aquaculture
Trident Seafoods does not disclose information about how it promotes sustainable aquaculture practices in its operations and supply chains. The company can improve its performance by disclosing how it addresses important issues in aquaculture, such as antibiotics use, aquaculture feed use, animal welfare, and impacts on endangered species and sensitive habitats.

Commitment to traceability
The company does not disclose a commitment on fully traceable operations and supply chain.

Traceability system for seafood products and aquaculture feed ingredients
Trident Seafoods does not disclose information about how it traces and verifies the origins of seafood products. Robust traceability systems contribute to reducing social and environmental risks in a company’s operations and supply chains, and. The company therefore can improve in this area by to presenting its traceability system, including key data elements that are collected and the mechanisms used to verify the information along the supply chain.

Risk-based approach to IUU fishing
Trident Seafoods provides information about how it mitigates risks for IUU fisheries across its operations and supply chains. The company, however, could improve its performance by disclosing its method to conduct IUU risk assessments as well as due diligence processes to identify and mitigate these risks across its operations and supply chain.

Disclosure of the origin of its seafood and marine feed ingredients
Trident Seafoods does not publicly disclose information about the source of its seafood products. By being transparent in this area, the company could demonstrate responsibility and accountability for its operations and supply chain. Trident Seafoods can improve its performance by disclosing an overview of its fishing and aquaculture operations and the seafood products it sources, including information about species, geographic location, and management status.

Child and forced labour
Trident Seafoods does not disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour and forced labour in its operations and supply chain.

Living wage
Trident 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.

Working and living conditions on board fishing vessels
No evidence was found of a group-level approach to verify decent working and living conditions on fishing vessels. Trident Seafoods can improve its performance by ensuring that working and living conditions on vessels in its supply chain are monitored, disclosing monitoring results and demonstrating how risks are mitigated and improvements are implemented, where needed.

Respecting customary and indigenous rights
The company does not demonstrate that it respects customary and indigenous rights.

Engagement with and support for local communities
Trident Seafoods does provide examples of engagement activities with local communities. The company could improve its reporting by disclosing a systematic process for engaging with local communities in its own operations and supply chain, and tracking progress of the results and impacts of its engagement with them.

Gender commitment in the supply chain
The company does not demonstrate how it drives gender equality and women’s empowerment in its supply chain.

Trident Seafoods provides a grievance mechanism for both its workers and external individuals and communities. However, the company does not disclose policies committing to respecting human rights and ILO core labour rights in its operations and supply chain. Moreover, Trident Seafoods does not disclose evidence of a human rights due diligence process nor how it engages with affected and potentially affected stakeholders.

No evidence of policies or commitments related to decent work were found in the public domain. As such, Trident Seafoods does not demonstrate that it provides secure, safe and healthy workplaces, where workers are fairly remunerated and have a meaningful say in decision making.

No policies or commitments related to key ethical business topics – personal data protection, tax, bribery and corruption, and lobbying and political engagement – were found in the public domain. As such, Perdue does not demonstrate how it ensures ethical business conduct throughout its operations and in its relationships with business partners.