Whitby Seafoods

• 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
• Modern slavery statement
• "Made in the United Kingdom" only means the last major stage happened there: under customs and consumer law, catching or farming the fish and seafood can be made elsewhere. It hasn't shown where those earlier stages happen, so where it's made counts towards On Track but not Good.
• 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 Whitby Seafoods breads and packs its scampi at its own factories in Whitby (England) and Kilkeel (Northern Ireland); a Sedex-audited partner in Vietnam does a small share of processing. About 80% of its seafood is langoustine from 347 British and Irish boats, but it publishes no vessel list and reports no independent crew checks. Smaller amounts come from China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Peru, Iceland, Germany and France; king prawns are ASC certified. The UK scampi fishery is in the MSC Improvement Program (2025-2030), not MSC certified.