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.

Records indicate that Bright Food Group is the beneficial owner of three fishing vessels flagged to Morocco and over a dozen which are flagged to Argentina. Two of the vessels (Hu Shun Yu 06 and Hu Shun Yu 07) disembarked dead crew members at the Uruguayan port of Montevideo in 2022, and at least one (Hu Shun Yu 07) has a history of disabling its Automatic Identification System…