Pacific Seafood Releases Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report for 2023

Pacific Seafood released its sixth annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report highlighting the company ’ s actions in all aspects of its business The company increased sustainability efforts, supported ground-breaking research, created longlasting community partners and added more team member benefits

“Transformation,” the theme of this year ’ s report, goes hand in hand with how Pacific Seafood defines excellence: Consistently doing your best and always striving to do better

Highlights of the report include:

Sustainability & Environment

• PAC-12 Carbon Offset – In partnership with the PAC-12, Pacific Seafood made the first carbon neutral Power 5 Conference Game a reality by purchasing carbon offsets from United Green Energy

• Saving Energy with LED Lighting – Pacific Seafood in Quilcene dropped energy usage by 75 percent By partnering with Jefferson County Public Utility District, Pacific Seafood was able to replace old lighting with LED bulbs that will save one million kilowatt hours of electricity a year

• Sustainability Efforts Increase – Pacific Seafood’s Environmental, Health and Safety team nearly doubled in 2022 with the addition of two team members focused on broadening the company ’ s sustainability efforts

Value, Creation & Quality

• Fish Skin Anti-Aging Research – As part of Pacific Seafood’s work with Oregon State University’s Seafood Research and Education Center, researchers found evidence to suggest the gelatin in the skin of Pacific

Whiting can prevent skin wrinkling caused by ultraviolet rays

• Fish to Animal Feed Research – Pacific Seafood Bio Products studied the effect of feeding Pacific Surimi’s dried waste to chickens and found it enriched edible tissues with significant levels of healthy omega-3 fats

Community

• World Oceans Day Trash Pickup – Pacific Seafood prevented more than 500 pounds of trash from entering waterways with the first companywide World Oceans Day trash pickup event

• National Seafood Month Volunteer Event –

With the launch of Pacific Seafood’s first food bank volunteer event to recognize National Seafood Month, the company and its team members created new and lasting partnerships with area food banks