We’re contacting you in light of our research on the practice of ‘flagging in’, whereby fishing vessels owned by companies in one country are flagged to another country in order to access that second country’s waters. We are not indicating explicitly or implicitly that flagging-in is illegal, we are just taking a look at the issue of flagging-in globally.

According to information published on the company website, Arbumasa is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese corporation, Dalian Huafeng Aquatic Products. Records indicate that Arbumasa runs a fleet of at least nine vessels, several of wh…