People
* We support local and traditional fishing communities. Wherever possible we will support fishermen that fish within their own territorial waters and we will support packers that are local to the fishing.
* We support the idea of fairly-trade fish. We will not work with fisheries that are the result of an unequal deal between poor countries and rich countries that damage local fishing villages and communities.
* We will not support long distance foreign water fishing fleets that fish in the coastal waters of developing states.
* We will not not support sweatshop-type factories in developing countries with no labour rights, bad working conditions, poor standards of hygiene, health and welfare.
* In 2008 we launched the world’s first ever “fair fish” skipjack tuna - granting a 10% premium on top of the market price, which in part is committed to a community project.
* The skipjack tuna factory we use in the Maldives is accredited to the Ethical Trading Initiative standards and government owned. Fishing provides work for some 20% of the population and Maldivians have one of the higest per capita consumptions of fish in the world. Boats are owned by a large number of local fishing captains. All our other products are packed within the EU.
* We have approached the Fair Trade Foundation to encourage and ask them to develop a Fair Trade standard for fish.
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