I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and a supplier of Bidfood Netherlands called Kramers’ Seafood.

Kramers’ Seafood imports Alaska pollock from Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Foodstuffs Co. Ltd, and sells Alaska pollock under its Fishmasters label. Fishmasters-branded Alaska pollock is distributed by Bidfood Netherlands, according to its online store.

Qingdao Tianyuan has received persons transferred from the Xinjiang region of Chin…

Trade records viewed by The Outlaw Ocean Project show that Kramers’ Seafood imported shipments of Alaska pollock from a processor in China called Qingao Lian Yang in 2021 and 2022. Qingdao Lian Yang has received persons transferred from the Xinjiang region of China under the same government labor transfer program referred to in our previous email, since at least April 2022 and as recently as April 2023. Qingdao Lian Yang is also linked to Qingdao Tianyuan, which has supplied pollock to Bidfood and was referred to in our previous email, through corporate ownership. While we recognize that you m…