Inaba

• 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.
• 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 Inaba light tuna cans are sold in Japan in versions labelled as made in Thailand and as Japanese products; the company runs Thai subsidiaries (Inaba Foods Thailand, Thai Inaba Food) and a plant in Qingdao, China, but does not say which sites can its tuna. In a 2017 Greenpeace Japan survey Inaba, one of two firms holding about 70% of Japan's canned tuna market, had no written sourcing policy and no rules on transshipment at sea; its tuna came about 80% from the western and central Pacific and 20% from the Indian Ocean. It publishes no vessel list, crew checks or supplier list. Its Australian arm sells pet food only.