We are 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 records show that Inter-Canada Fisheries was the consignee for squid in 2022 from a Chinese company called China Aquatic Products Zhoushan Marine Fisheries Corp., which is part of the state-owned enterprise, the China National Fisher…