I’m writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns abuses in the Chinese squid fishing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in abuses and your supply chain.

This link concerns a Chinese squid jigger owned by the Chinese fishery company, Rongcheng Wangdao Ocean Aquatic Products. In a seven-month period, one crew member died and a second was disembarked for emergency medical treatment after suffering serious mistreatment and abuse while on board the vessel. Our reporting documents multiple indicators of forced labor among crew onboard the vessel:…

I contacted you earlier this year regarding The Outlaw Ocean Project’s investigation into abuses in the Chinese squid fishing industry as it related to your supply chain. I am contacting you again in light of new findings made as part of our ongoing reporting, which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry.

Your supplier Rizhao Meijia Aquatic Foodstuff Co. Ltd. is a Meijia Group company. The Meijia Group and another of your suppliers, Shandong Haidu, have received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the stat…

We previously emailed Rhee Bros on January 17, 2023, and June 15, 2023, regarding our investigation into China’s squid fishing fleet and the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry. Since then, our ongoing investigation has made further findings which we want to bring to your attention. We have investigators on the ground in China who have been engaging with labor brokers directly involved with the transfer of North Korean workers to factories in China. Through this and other investigative means, including collecting online footage from the plants and interviews with workers…