We previously contacted Aqua Star in 2024 regarding our investigation into China’s seafood processing industry. We are contacting you now regarding our ongoing investigation into aquaculture and the global fishmeal and fish oil industry, which has uncovered an array of industry-wide environmental and human rights concerns. These concerns date from between 2018 and the present, and they pertain to events or conditions on land or at sea.

The feed company Sheng Long Bio-Tech supplies feed to hatcheries and farms that supply farmed shrimp to NK Marine Exports LLP, an Indian shrimp processor and e…

I emailed you on March 19, 2026, regarding our ongoing investigation into aquaculture and the global fishmeal and fish oil industry, and we have additional information which we wanted to share with you.

A feed company called Avanti Feeds Limited is certified to supply feed to hatcheries and farms that supply the seafood company Falcon Marine Exports, according to Best Aquaculture Practices certification data. Between 2020 and 2023, Falcon Marine Exports sent over twenty shipments of shrimp to a variety of importers, including Aqua Star. According to trade data, the shrimp was branded as Harbo…

Subsequent to my email of March 30, 2026, we have an additional media query concerning Aqua Star’s supply chain.

In 2022, a salmon farm in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China called Xinjiang Tianyun Organic Agriculture Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to sell $140 million worth of salmon to Dalian Rich Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. Dalian Rich sells frozen salmon to seafood processing companies in North America and Europe under various brands. Between 2022 and 2023, Dalian Rich sent shipments of salmon to Aqua Star. As part of its line of products for the food service sector, Aqua Star…