We partner with Fair Trade USA® to restore healthy marine ecosystems, livelihoods, and build resilient coastal communities in the Maldives:

• Fair Trade USA’s standards address traceability to support efforts to detect and deter seafood fraud, labor abuse, and overfishing.

• We are committed to working to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Fair Trade USA’s rigorous standards contribute to building resilient communities and prosperous individuals through conscious consumers and mutually beneficial trade:

  • UNSDG 1 No Poverty: Reducing poverty and blunting the negative impacts of it inherent to the lives of farmers, workers, and fishermen.

  • UNSDG 8 Decent Work & Economic Growth: Fair wages, dignified working conditions, ensuring human rights are respected, and avoiding the worst forms of abuse.

  • UNSDG 12 Responsible Consumption & Production: Gives consumers the opportunity to support companies who are committed to sustainability.

  • UNSDG 14 Life Below Water: Fair Trade USA’s seafood standards enable market access for small scale fishers, requires them to manage fish stocks sustainably, and protects the marine environment.

We’re proud to collaborate with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch® program to support healthy oceans. We indicate which seafood we sell is fished or farmed in ways that minimize their environmental impact. Learn more at seafoodwatch.org

Seafood Watch empowers consumers and businesses to make choices for healthy oceans. Using science-based, peer reviewed methods, Seafood Watch assesses how wild-caught and farmed seafood affect the environment and provides recommendations indicating which items are “Best Choices,” “Good Alternatives,” and which ones to “Avoid.” As a Seafood Watch business partner, we pledge to serve only seafood rated a “Best Choice” or “Good Alternative” and to educate you – our customers – and suppliers about sustainability issues.

Mind Fish Co. is excited to be a supplier member of Fish Choice who works directly with the Seafood Watch Program at Monterey Bay Aquarium, Ocean Wise, NOAA Fisheries, the MSC, and ASC in providing science based, up-to-date sustainable seafood products, suppliers of those products, and relevant supporting information.

FishChoice.com is an online, sustainable seafood sourcing tool that connects retail, restaurant, and institutional seafood buyers to suppliers of sustainable seafood products. FishChoice.com also helps sustainable aquaculture operations and wild fisheries that utilize environmentally responsible fishing methods find markets for their products.