We are contacting you 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 Turkish aquaculture company Kılıç Deniz has supplied fish to Lidl, according to a 2025 report by Desmog, an investigative group based in the UK. Our investigation has found the following pertaining to three companies which have supplied fishmeal to Kılıç Deniz: Delta Oc…
I'm waiting for one more piece of information from a colleague who is out of office at the moment. Would it be okay if we provided our response by Monday, March 23?
Thank you very much for your patience and for the opportunity to comment.
We take the information you have described very seriously. As part of our corporate due diligence, we continuously and systematically review potential risks in our supply chains and initiate countermeasures where necessary. If we receive information about grievances in our supply chain or that our standards are not being adhered to, we follow up on this information as part of our compliance processes.
With regard to your inquiry, Lidl International and Lidl Great Britain do not have a direct business relationship with…
As international supply chains are highly complex, it is very difficult to identify specific companies in the chain, especially those at the very beginning of the supply chain. This is an issue the entire industry faces. We are constantly striving to establish more transparency and traceability along our supply chains, for example through Lidl GBs longstanding commitment to the Ocean Disclosure Project and our international partnership with WWF. Achieving a more transparent overview requires long-term, industry-wide cooperation. What we can confirm is that at this point we have no indication t…