Pacific West

• 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 Pacific West's crumbed and tempura prawns, squid and fish are made at owner Golden Fresh's value-added plant in Malaysia, and its New Zealand fish and mussels are caught and processed by Talley's. It says it sources from many other countries but does not name them, and publishes no supplier list, vessel or farm list, modern slavery statement or audit results. Where its prawns are farmed is not disclosed. Some lines, such as its hake, are MSC certified, and Golden Fresh holds MSC and ASC chain of custody, but no share of the range is given.