I’m writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns abuses in the Chinese squid fishing industry. Our investigation has found that Bodelong Group vessels have fished illegally in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific Oceans, and have disembarked at least two dead deckhands in the Port of Montevideo, in 2016 and 2019. One vessel also disembarked an ill deckhand in Montevideo in 2020 who had symptoms of beriberi, a sign of severe neglect. Does Shandong Bodelong Group have any comment or statement to make in light of this email? Please reply by close of business on August 4…

We’re contacting you now regarding our research on 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. Records indicate that Shandong Bodelong Group is the beneficial owner of dozens of vessels which are flagged to Argentina and Ghana.

The Shandong Bodelong Group is also the parent company of an Argentine-flagged ship 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 footage shared…