Treats workers with respect and fairness; Advances gender equality and women’s empowerment
Do you provide health care or equivalent?
- Yes and offer other benefits
Please check all that describe your working conditions and workplace expectations
- Pay Fair & competitive wages
- Conduct Workplace hazard and safety analysis/audit
- Workplace Trainings (safety, environmental, or social)
- No bonded, forced labor, trafficking, or child labor
- Established Grievance Process
- Allow/do not inhibit Collective Bargaining
How do you further gender equality and women’s empowerment?
- Ensure pay equity
- Equal Opportunity hiring and access to advancement or leadership positions
- Sufficient Maternity/Paternity Leave
Do you engage in mentorship?
Yes.
Do you mentor people from traditionally underserved, marginalized, or unsupported groups?
- Women and/or gender non-binary people
Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change
What are you doing to address emissions associated with transportation?
- Sell 80% or more of product locally <100 miles
Are you using or transitioning to renewable energy sources?
Not using renewable energy
Are you growing seaweed for livestock feed additives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Yes.
Are you monitoring or conducting research into carbon uptake by seaweeds?
Yes.
Supports Global Ecosystems and Coexists with Wildlife
What measures do you put in place to limit entanglement or impact on wildlife?
- Reduce lines in the water
- Site lines close to shore
How does your operation impact the local environment?
- Improve biodiversity
- Actively create habitat
- Other (Reduces pH, mitigating effects of ocean acidification)
Do you support or lead any habitat or ecosystem restoration projects?
Yes. Measuring and studying the effects of reduced pH on bivalves and shell bearing organisms within the health halo of our partner kelp farms. Additionally, we work with partners to monitor the increased level of biodiversity within the health halo of our partner kelp farms.
Do you work with researchers and scientists to study the impact of seaweed farming?
Yes.
What do you monitor?
- Nutrient Uptake
- Ocean acidification
Do you use seaweed in tandem with other seafood production operations (shellfish or finfish?)
No.
Promotes a healthy and safe growing environment for a safe food source
Do you reguarly test for contaminants?
Yes, for Mercury, PCBs, Other Heavy Metals (Cadmium, Lead, Arsenic, etc.)
Do test results reflect safe and healthy levels of contaminants?
Builds resilience and opportunity in local communities
Do you work with, employ, or buy from small holder farmers?
Yes.
Do you support education or job training programs?
- We provide or lend resources to occupational training programs
How do you assess and improve your community engagement and impact?
- Community outreach programs
- Have an accessible system for community participation in resource management and decision making
- Work with and/or educate regulators and policy makers
- Other – work with the Maine lobstering community specifically to educate and engage in kelp aquaculture best practices and resources for success
Do you share or loan equipment with members of your community?
Yes.
Preserves the quality and story of the product throughout the supply chain
What parts of the product’s identity are preserved and included in the final product branding?
- Face (the people who grow the food)
- Place (where it is grown)
- Practices (production method/processing)
What traceability measures are in place to ensure quality and provide full transparency to buyers and consumers?
- System allows transparency – key data and documentation can flow between steps/actors of the supply chain
- Lot Coding
- Vertically Integrated
- Work with partners who have shared traceability goals and/or systems
Builds Markets for Solutions Beyond Food
Do you produce and sell non-food products?
- Livestock Feed Additives.
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