The Seafood Slavery Risk Tool (Risk Tool) is the first resource to consolidate both evidence and risk analysis of forced labor, human trafficking, and hazardous child labor into publicly available, system-wide profiles covering fisheries, aquaculture, and seafood processing. These profiles focus on value chains of importance to markets in Europe and North America, where there is a strong impetus for delivering more sustainably and ethically produced seafood.

SSRT, Inc. developed the Tool in response to the growing recognition of forced labor, human trafficking, and hazardous child labor taking place in global seafood production, and the need to identify where these abuses are occurring or are likely to occur. We hope the Tool will help to bring about positive social changes for workers in global seafood production by encouraging more data collection and transparency about labor in the seafood industry, targeted and better due diligence by seafood buyers and financiers, and a stronger call for accountability from industry by governments, non-governmental organizations, and the wider public. The pilot version of the Risk Tool has already triggered strong reactions from governments and other seafood stakeholders, giving us a compelling platform from which to grow the tool.

SSRT, Inc. has formed collaborative, data-sharing agreements with other organizations. The Tool contributes to the wider discussion on social responsibility in seafood production and is one of only three tools to address labor abuses in fishing mentioned in the U.S. Labor Department’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. (https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ilab/ListofGoods.pdf)