My name is Ian Urbina. I am the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States, and I'm working on a magazine story about labor issues and other crimes at sea on board vessels of the Chinese fishing fleet. We are reaching out to request a comment both from your company and the captain of the Lu Huang Yuan Yu 118 (鲁⻩远渔118), on our statements below, concerning the Lu Huang Yuan Yu 118, which we mention in the story.

Our reporting has shown the following: In 2020, several Indonesian deckhands called a hotline to complain about seve…