Ortiz

• 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.
• Owns or runs its own production
• 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 Ortiz is a fifth-generation family business that has canned fish in Ondarroa, on Spain's Basque coast, since 1891, and its anchovies are cleaned, filleted and packed by hand by its own workers. It says much of its bonito and anchovy is line-caught locally, but publishes no vessel list, holds no MSC or other certification for most of its range, and reports no checks of crews, no supplier code and no labour policy. Women in Bizkaia's canning sector struck in 2021-22 over low pay and precarious contracts; Ortiz was not named.