I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns various issues that pertain to labor abuses and forced labor in the global seafood supply chain. To that end, we have a few questions about how Seafood Watch accounts for these concerns.

1. What steps has the Seafood Watch program taken to adjust their rankings and seafood recommendations to account for human rights and labor concerns?
2. Where has the Seafood Watch program not been able to accomplish what they’ve hoped to in order to address labor concerns in specific fisheries?
3. How were findings from the Seafood Slav…

1. What steps has the Seafood Watch program taken to adjust their rankings and seafood recommendations to account for human rights and labor concerns? The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program’s green, yellow and red seafood ratings assess the environmental impacts of fisheries and aquaculture supplying the U.S. market. Human rights and labor concerns are not factored into these sustainability ratings.

As stories about human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain began to emerge, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s focus expanded in 2015 to include equity and human rights issues in seafood pro…