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

This link concerns a Chinese squid jigger owned by Rongcheng Wangdao Ocean Aquatic Products. In a seven-month period between August 2020 and March 202…

We wrote to the Chishan Group earlier this year regarding our research into the Chinese squid fishing industry, and I am contacting you again with regard to findings we’ve made concerning forced labor.

The Chishan Group has received multiple groups of workers from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the government’s labor transfer program. We have found evidence of Uyghurs working at a Chishan Group factory as recently as May 2023.

The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has s…

Dear Ian Urbina:

Please allow me to introduce myself, Guogang Li, a lawyer from Tahota (Beijing) Law Firm (please see Attachment 1 for my biography), entrusted by Haibo Seafood Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Haibo”, please see Attachment 2 for the Power of Attorney) and Shandong Haidu Ocean Product Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “Haidu”, please see Attachment 3 for the Power of Attorney). I would like to send the following comments below to you regarding the report in the “Outlaw Ocean Project” related to the Uyghur laborers in the seafood processing factories for your consideration.

I. Among the laborers…

Dear Mr. Guogang Li,

Thank you for your letter from November 6, 2023. This letter comes as the latest in a series of exchanges in which representatives at Rongcheng Haibo Seafood Co., Ltd. and/or Shandong Haidu Ocean Product Co. Ltd have claimed that no Xinjiang workers have been at the plants. You can review that back-and-forth for Haibo and [Haidu](https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/discussion/#shandong-haidu-ocean-product-co-…

As part of our ongoing investigation of global seafood, we have questions arising from research we conducted about a certain plant that was recently formed.

We’ve received information from a source in China that this company named Shandong Nabaixian is either the same plant as one previously called Rongcheng Haibo, or is very closely affiliated with Rongcheng Haibo. The source has had direct dealings with Shandong Nabaixian. We also checked various trade and company databases and found that this company called Shandong Nabaixian was created in October 2023 and that it was listed in a Chinese…