One of the benefits of being a member of our Skipper Otto’s CSF is knowing exactly which fisherman caught your seafood, when and where, and by using sustainable fishing practices. Making sure that these practices continue to exist can save not only your life as consumers of premium seafood, but also the lives of innocent people we never get to see, but who are sadly the victims of the industrial fishing supply chain.

A six months investigation conducted by The Guardian has revealed the horrifying image of globalized slavery in the production of seafood in Asia, which is then sold to major supermarket chains across North America and Europe. The investigation found that the world’s largest prawn farmer, the Thailand-based Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, buys fishmeal, which it feeds to its farmed prawns, from some suppliers that own, operate or buy from fishing boats manned with slaves. People who have escaped from boats owned by the Thai company tell their survival stories, after being subjected to horrific conditions, including 20-hour shifts, regular beatings, torture and execution-style killings.

Such realities make us ever more so responsible for ensuring the full boat-to-fork transparency of our value chain for all members of Skipper Otto’s CSF, and fair working conditions and prices for all the fishermen that our CSF supports.