Treats workers with respect and fairness; Advances gender equality and women’s empowerment
Do you provide health care or equivalent?
Yes.
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
- Immigrants
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
- Currently reducing air freight to ship products
Are you using or transitioning to renewable energy sources?
Yes, using and increasing
What renewable energy resources are you switching to?
Are you collaborating with researchers to study and prepare for climate change’s impact on shellfish farmers?
Yes
Supports Global Ecosystems and Coexists with Wildlife
What measures do you put in place to limit entanglement or impact on wildlife?
- Non-lethal predator barriers
- Wildlife interaction response training & team
How does your operation impact the local environment?
- Improve biodiversity
- Actively create habitat
Do you support or lead any habitat or ecosystem restoration projects?
Yes, restoration.
Positively impacts water resources and nutrient cycles
What measures do you take to ensure high water quality?
- Water Quality Monitoring
- No inputs or feed
- Natural filtration
How else does your farm benefit water resources?
- Increased water quality monitoring in region
- No Freshwater Use
Promotes a healthy and safe growing environment for a safe food source
Do you reguarly test for contaminants?
Yes.
Do test results reflect safe and healthy levels of contaminants?
- Low/neglible PCBs
- Low/negligible Heavy Metals
- Low Mercury levels <0.15 µg/g
What measures do you take to provide a healthy and safe growing environment for a safe product?
- UV Filtration Holding System (Depuration)
- Hatchery biosecurity plan (high health plan)
- Source of seed
- Transfer Permit
- Regular sanitation
Enhances Flavor and Nutrition
What nutritional characteristics or benefits do your products offer?
- Trace minerals
- Source of protein
- Omega 3s
What measures are you taking to improve consistency and uniformity?
- Graders
- Internal size standards and tracking
What handling practices are in place to improve flavor, freshness, and shelf life?
- Wet Storage
- Harvest day of distribution
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 training programs
- We hire directly from training or education 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
Do you share or loan equipment with members of your community?
No.
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?
- 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?
No.
Merchandizing US organic cotton and US made materials.
Making compost from oysters and seaweed internally but not creating for sale.
