We’re contacting you now 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.

Publicly available documents preparing an initial public offering for Zhejiang Ocean Family show that Mitsubishi Corporation purchased tuna from Zhejiang Ocean Family between 2018 and 2021.

Zhejiang Ocean Family is the beneficial own…