The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project

We’re contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry.

Trade records show that Southstream Seafoods Inc. imported dozens of shipments of pollock from a processor in China called Qingdao Tianyuan in 2019 and 2018. Qingdao Tianyuan has received persons transferred from the Xinjiang region of China under a government labor transfer program since 2018 and until at least May 2023.

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