We’re contacting you in light of 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. We are not indicating explicitly or implicitly that flagging-in is illegal, we are just taking a look at the issue of flagging-in globally.

Trade data indicates that Tsuruhachi Co. Ltd. in Japan was the consignee for shipments of seafood from the Argentine company Ardapez in 2022. Records indicate that Ardapez runs at least two Argentine-flagged vessels which fish within Argenti…