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.

Trade data indicates that Europacífico Alimentos Del Mar was the consignee for shipments of seafood from the Argentine company Arbumasa in 2022 and 2023. Records indicate that Arbumasa runs a fleet of at least nine vessels, several of which…