The Outlaw Ocean Project
We are contacting you regarding our latest investigation, which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry.
According to the EU tenders database, Transgourmet Deutschland won a €2.7m contract from Stadt Ulm in 2021 to supply the city’s public schools with meals.
Our research has found that Transgourmet Deutschland offers pollock under the Fishmasters label, a brand owned by the Dutch seafood company Kramers’ Seafood. Kramers’ Seafood imported at least 12 shipments of pollock from a Chinese processing plant called Qingdao Tianyuan in 2022. Kramers’ Seafood also im…