The Outlaw Ocean Project

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, Bidfood won a €3.2m contract in 2023 to supply food to the University Medical Center in Utrecht, with the contract including the provision of frozen fish. Our research has found that Bidfood sells at least four Kramers’ Seafood products that contain pollock. Kramers’ Seafood imported at least 12 shipments of pollock from a Chinese processing plant called Qingdao Tianyuan in 2022. Kramers’ Seafood also imported at least ni…