We’re contacting you in light of our research into China’s fishing industry and 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.

According to our research, Patagonia Fishing operates Argentine-flagged fishing vessels which are under the beneficial ownership of the Chinese corporation, Shandong Bodelong Group.One of these ships is called the Lu Qing Yuan Yu 280. In 2020, the Lu Qing Yuan Yu 280 dumped overboard thousands of pounds of fish from Argentine waters, according to f…