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. We are not indicating explicitly or implicitly that flagging-in is illegal, we are just taking a look at the issue of flagging-in globally.

Records indicate that Dalian Huafeng Aquatic Products Co. Ltd. is the beneficial owner of over a dozen fishing vessels flagged to Argentina, including vessels operated by the fishing companies Arbumasa S.A. and Ardapez S.A.

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