The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project

I understand you manage press queries for Musgrave MarketPlace. 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 Musgrave’s supply chain.

Musgrave Marketplace sells squid products from the Hottlet Frozen Foods’ ‘epic’ brand. Hottlet Frozen Foods ‘epic’ squid products are supplied by two Chinese seafood processors owned by the Chishan Group, a large seafood conglomerate based in Shandong province.

The Chishan Group has received multiple groups of workers as recently as 2023 fro…