The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project

I’m writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns abuses in the Chinese squid fishing and seafood processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in abuses and a supplier in your supply chain - Qingdao Tianyuan.

Trade records show that Alimex Seafood has imported pollock from Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Foods, a seafood processor based in China.

Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Products has received persons from the Xinjiang region of China under a state- imposed labor transfer program since early 2020 and at least until May 2023. The United Nations, hum…