Connétable

• Risk across the industry, not a finding about this company: fishing fleets and processing plants have some of the worst documented forced labour, including trafficked crews held at sea for years.
• Makes part of its range in its own factories
• Relies on fish and seafood from fishing boats and farms, where crews and farm workers, often migrants recruited into debt, have been held for months or years, beaten and denied pay, out of reach of factory audits. It hasn't shown any steps to trace its fish and seafood to the boat or farm or have the conditions of the people who catch or farm it checked, so it's graded Lacks transparency until it does.

Research notes Chancerelle cans Connétable at its Douarnenez cannery in Brittany and in Morocco, where retail listings show Connétable sardines "préparé au Maroc"; its Agadir plant employs nearly 1,000 people and a sardine preparation plant was built in Laâyoune, Western Sahara (a territory not on the country list). Nearly half its sardines come from Moroccan waters. Its own responsible fishing charter includes social criteria checked by Bureau Veritas at suppliers, but it publishes no vessel or plant list, reports no independent checks of crews and gives no MSC share.