We’ve heard that you’ve been investigating the global fishmeal and fish oil industry and ongoing Fishery Improvement Projects (FIPs).
MarinTrust is the leading programme for marine ingredients, with two certification standards (the factory standard and the chain of custody standard) and the Improver Programme for factories sourcing from improving fisheries.
We’d like to engage with the Outlaw Ocean project and provide you with more details about the Fishery Improver Projects and the assurances we provide through our Improver Programme.
Do let us know if you’d have time for a call or if you’…
Thanks for getting in touch yesterday about our ongoing investigation. My name is Susan Ryan and I’m the Operations and Investigations Editor with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a journalism non-profit based in Washington D.C. that produces reporting about human rights and environmental issues connected with the sea.
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 t…
Thank you for your questions. We will get back to you by the 5th January with MarinTrust’s perspective.
As for the questions intended for IFFO, we recommend that you reach out to them directly (we’ve copied them into this email).
We are also available for an online chat if you’d like to dive deeper into some more specific topics.
Please find attached our replies to your questions. Do reach out to us if you have any additional questions. We’d be glad to set up an online meeting and have a deeper conversation.
The first attachment said: MarinTrust’s answers to Outlaw Ocean
29 December 2025
Outlaw Ocean: In multiple cases, we found fishmeal plants that were certified by MarinTrust but which seemed to be tied to problematic environmental behaviors such as illegal and overfishing by their supplier fishing vessels. We also found pollution or stench caused by some of the certified fishmeal fac ories. Our concern is that…