The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project

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.

In November 2020, the Mauritanian news outlet Atlas News Agency published reporting citing complaints by residents of Nouadhibou that fishmeal plants in the area were causing foul odors which forced them to leave their homes and were allegedly causing a range of serious hea…