The Outlaw Ocean Project
My name is Ian Urbina and I’m the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism non-profit based in Washington D.C. that publishes stories about human rights and environmental issues connected with the sea. I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation and a link we’ve discovered between abuses on board a vessel owned by the Chinese fishery company, Rongcheng Wangdao Ocean Aquatic Products, and your manning agency. In 2019, PT Bahtera Agung Samudra placed several Indonesian deckhands on a Chinese distant-water fishing ship owned by Rongcheng Wangdao, called the Zhen Fa 7. One of…