I’m writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns China’s seafood industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in abuses and your supply chain.

Inlet Seafish’s ‘Seawork tubo de pota’ product is supplied by a Chinese seafood processor called Shandong Shuangdu, a Chishan Group company. The Chishan Group has received multiple groups of workers from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program, including as recently as 2023. The United Nations, human rights organizations and academi…

We’re writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns China’s seafood industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in abuses and your supply chain.

According to trade records, Inlet Seafish was the consignee for several shipments of squid from the Chinese seafood processor Shandong Haidu, a Chishan Group company, between 2019 and 2023.

Our investigation has uncovered Chishan Group connections to ships engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Fishing vessels owned by the group have been observed fishing in North Korean waters in contravent…

We would like to thank you for your email on the 20th of September 2023, wherein you have let us know that your investigation from The Outlaw Ocean Project has resulted in findings of human rights violations at the Chinese company Shandong Haidu of the Chishan Group and the squid fishing vessel Zhen Fa 7.

Inlet Seafish does not tolerate any infringement on human rights in its supply chains and urges everyone to perform their due diligence in their respective supply chains. As Inlet Seafish is passionate to work with its partners to prevent any infringements on human rights, including forced a…

Inlet Seafish does not tolerate any infringement of human rights in its processes and urges all to perform due diligence in their respective supply chains. As Inlet Seafish is committed to working with its partners to prevent any infringement of human rights, including forced labor and child exploitation, we require all suppliers to sign our Ethical Trading Agreement based on the Ethical Trading Initiative Base Code.

We are distressed to hear that forced labor practices such as those you describe are still occurring today in countries such as China. We support any action group, such as The Ou…