I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns abuses in China’s distant water fishing fleet. Our investigation has found scores of squid fishing ships which are engaged in various forms of abuse and crimes - ranging from human rights concerns such as avoidable deaths and fatal neglect, to IUU (illegal, unregulated and unreported) fishing concerns including raiding other country’s waters and not stopping when law enforcement instructed them to do so.
The CNFC is the transshipment entity that moves a lot of the fish coming from these vessels and which has ties to proc…
I’m writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns the Chinese squid fishing fleet and the treatment of a crew member on board the squid fishing vessel, the Wei Yu 18. A crew member whose employment contract was signed with CNFC Co. Ltd., the China Fishery Group Co. Ltd. and the manning agency PT. Shafar Abadi Indonesia, died in September 2019 after falling ill on board and being refused medical treatment for over two weeks. Does your company have any comment or statement to make about this? Please let us know by close of business July 21, 2023.
We are contacting you now 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 the China National Fisheries Corporation (CNFC) is the beneficial owner of dozens of fishing vessels around the world which are flagged to other states, including Argentina and Senegal.
According to our research, there are also more than three dozen cases of CNFC ships which have fished in West Africa without licenses or in prohibited areas, using fo…