The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project

I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry.

Qingdao Lian Yang Aquatic Products Co. Ltd. has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the government’s labor transfer program. We have found evidence of Uyghurs working at Qingdao Lian Yang Aquatic Products Co. Ltd. as early as April 2022 and as recently as April 2023.

The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematicall…