Our performance in 2025
We are passionate about building a more sustainable future for the aquaculture industry so it can provide protein the world needs. This includes reporting regularly on our progress. Here, we share data from our global aqua nutrition operations and supply chains, accompanied by relevant highlights.
2025 sustainability highlights
Product
• More than 96% of the marine ingredients originating from forage fisheries used in our coldwater feeds were certified or from a Fishery Improvement Project (FIP).
• We developed a specialized feed solution for closed salmon farming systems in Norway to support water quality and micronutrition.
• ADAPT Low Impact helped Ecuador’s shrimp farmers reduce nutrient accumulation to improve water quality.
People
• We continued to expand our Women Entrepreneurs in the Shrimp Sector program in Ecuador, with 170 participants this year.
• We supported the communities where we live and work through a variety of events, donations, and volunteering in countries like Chile, Ecuador, and Norway.
• Every member of our aqua nutrition leadership team and 98.5% of our aqua nutrition employees completed ethics and anti-corruption training.
Planet
• Our coldwater feed raw materials had an average Scope 3 footprint of 1.48 tCO2e per tonne including land use change, a 14% reduction over 2024.
• Across all our aqua feeds produced in 2025, we have reduced our Scope 1 and 2 emissions per tonne of feed by 41.9% since 2020.
• Support we provided to a Fishery Improvement Project (FIP) in Mauritania funded a study that confirmed the continued presence of the endangered humpback dolphin in the area.
Product
We are innovating across our portfolio in an effort to make our products and services more sustainable and to help our customers raise healthier and more productive aqua species.
People
We strive to create equitable workplaces for people across our aqua nutrition business and safeguard the rights of those in our supply chains.
Planet
Our approach to managing our value chains aims to use resources more efficiently, reduce our impact on ecosystems, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Partnerships
With the world more connected and interdependent than ever, we are engaging stakeholders across the sector to drive lasting positive impact.
About our data
This is the 17th year that we have shared sustainability data for our aqua nutrition business and the ninth year including warmwater feeds. In that time, we have shared our environmental and social sustainability performance, as well as our goals for continued progress. We invite stakeholders to share their feedback on our progress.
Please share feedback or questions
The data on this section of our aqua nutrition sustainability website is updated annually for the prior calendar year and pertains to sustainability performance for our aqua nutrition business for calendar year 2025, unless otherwise noted. This data demonstrates our performance on key indicators that are material to our aqua feed business, with clarity on our reporting boundaries, calculation assumptions, and context where needed. In many cases, we compare performance relative to 2020 as a baseline, aligning with Cargill’s corporate-level reporting. Data is rounded to three significant digits, in line with Cargill’s overall reporting practices. Product performance and other statements are based on internal analyses, field trials, or third-party information under specific conditions and are not guarantees of future results.
Cargill produces aqua feeds at 22 facilities. Of these, 10 are primarily livestock feed or premix production sites. For this reason, these multi-use facilities have historically been excluded from the scope of our sustainability data. We continue this approach for 2025 data, reporting only on our mills solely dedicated to aqua feed production and only those that were in operation for the full calendar year. This totals 12 mills across eight countries. Our six coldwater mills produce feed for salmonid species. Our six warmwater mills serve shrimp, tilapia, and other species.
12
dedicated aquafeed mills in 8 countries
2
R&D innovation centers
1,490
employees
2.07
tonnes of feed sold in 2025
We align with broadly known, transparent reporting standards, reporting with reference to Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. We refer to GRI Universal Standard 2021 and reporting disclosures specific to our aqua nutrition business as a guide for all data families.
Cargill reports externally on company-wide material topics through our annual Impact Report. This report, along with supply chain grievance dashboards and other public information, can be found on Cargill’s Reporting Hub.
GRI index
The following tables provide an index to GRI disclosures and customized reporting topics and impacts that we have identified as material in operations for our aqua nutrition business. The full GRI Standards can be accessed here.
| GRI Standard Number | GRI Standard Title | Disclosure Number | Disclosure Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-01 | Name of the organization | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-02 | Activities, brands, products, and services |
Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-03 | Location of headquarters | Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-04 | Location of operations | Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-05 | Ownership and legal form | Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-06 | Markets served | Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-07 | Scale of the organization |
Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 Table 1-Feed production |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-08 |
Information on employees and other workers |
Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 Table 9-Worker Integrity |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-09 | Supply chain |
Key Fisheries Improvement Projects we support Our raw materials and their origins Table 2 - Global feeds composition – Marine and non-marine raw materials |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-10 | Significant changes to the organization and its supply chain |
Our feed mills and innovation centers in 2025 Our raw materials and their origins |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-11 | Precautionary principle or approach | Our priority topic areas |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-12 | External initiatives | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-13 | Members of Associations | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-14 | Statement from senior decision-maker | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-16 | Values, principles, standards, and norms of behavior | Our approach to sustainability |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-18 | Governance structure | Our approach to sustainability |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosures | 102-40 | List of stakeholder groups | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-42 | Identifying and selecting stakeholders | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-43 | Approach to stakeholder engagement | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-44 | Key topics and concerns raised | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-46 | Defining report content and topic boundaries | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-49 | Changes in reporting | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-50 | Reporting period | |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-51 | Date of most recent report | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-52 | Reporting cycle | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-53 | Contact point for questions regarding the report | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-54 | Claims of reporting with reference to the GRI Standards | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 102 | General Disclosure | 102-55 | GRI content index | Our performance in 2025 |
| GRI 103 | Management Approach | 103-02 | The management approach and its components | Our approach to sustainability |
| GRI 103 | Management Approach | 103-03 | Evaluation of the management approach | Our approach to sustainability |
| GRI 205 | Anti-Corruption | 205-02 | Communication and training about anti-corruption policies and procedures | Table 9-Worker integrity |
| GRI 301 | 301-01 | Materials used by weight and volume |
Our raw materials and their origins Table 2-Global feeds composition – Marine and non-marine raw materials |
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| GRI 302 | Energy | 302-01 | Energy consumption within the organization | Table 10-Energy use for feed production |
| GRI 302 | Energy | 302-03 | Energy intensity | Table 10-Energy use for feed production |
| GRI 302 | Energy | 302-04 | Reduction of energy consumption | Table 10-Energy use for feed production |
| GRI 305 | Emissions | 305-01 | Direct (scope 1) GHG emissions | Table 11 - Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) |
| GRI 305 | Emissions | 305-02 | Energy indirect (scope 2) GHG emissions |
Table 11 - Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) |
| GRI 305 | Emissions | 305-04 | GHG emissions intensity | Table 11 - Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) |
| GRI 408 | Child Labour | 408-01 | Operations and suppliers at significant risk for incidents of child labour | How we mitigate risks |
| Cargill Aqua Nutrition Customized Disclosures | ||||
| CQN 1-80 | Management standards | n/a | Upstream & Internal | Table 7 - Factory certifications – sustainability assurances |
| CQN 3-80 | Marine index | n/a | Upstream & Downstream |
Our raw materials and their origin Table 2 - Global feeds composition – Marine and non-marine raw materials Table 4 - Marine ingredient indices |
| CQN 3-83 | Global warming potential of raw materials and feeds | n/a | Upstream & Internal | Table 12 - Global Warming Potential (GWP) of feeds produced |
| CQN 3-87 | Health feed sales | n/a | Downstream | Table 5 - Feeds support health |
| CQN 3-88 | Anti-parasite feed sales | n/a | Downstream | Table 5 - Feeds support health |
| CQN 3-89 | Antibiotic feed sales | n/a | Downstream | Table 5 - Feeds support health |
| CQN 3-91 | Packaging for finished goods | n/a | Internal | Table 8 - Packaging and waste |
