My name is Ian Urbina and I’m the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism non-profit that publishes stories about human rights and environmental issues connected with the sea.

I’m writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns abuses in the Chinese squid fishing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between at least three companies whose vessels have been involved in fishing abuses and Zhoushan Xifeng Aquatic Co. Ltd. (舟山市西峰水产有限公司). We have visual evidence of bags of squid from the three companies in the Xifeng plant, and we have extensive evidence of those com…

We have received your mail/email, and we make the following points in response: 1. Our company solemnly declares that all the squid raw materials that we procured are all goods which have passed Chinese government department approval and possess legal fishing certificate(s), because our clients require us to provide legal fishing certificate(s) before procuring our company’s goods. 2. Other than squid processing services, our company also provides storage services, meaning goods from any shipping company can be temporarily stored at our company’s cold storage. We will charge a fee for cold sto…