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

Shantou Haimao partnered with a coalition of U.S. companies, including Beaver Street Fisheries, to implement a fisheries improvement project for the mitre squid fishery in the South China Sea in 2018. The fishery straddles Chinese waters and Taiwanese waters, according to a map provided as part of the fisheries improvement programme. Satellite data shows that some of this sq…