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.
Our investigation has found the following with regard to vessels owned by the Akros group of companies:
- On January 20, 2022, a serious accident occurred aboard the trawler Solidarnost, which was owned by the Akros group and operating at sea. A crew member fell from a he…
Thank you for getting in touch. Your email describes a number of accidents over the last 5 years or so. Akros takes matters of crew welfare and safety seriously, and every incident is followed up and looked into so that any lessons can be learned for improvement.
Akros wishes to ensure that any reporting is accurate and that matters are put into their true context. We would be open, and interested, in understanding more about the work you and the Outlaw Ocean Project are doing and the context for the matters you describe.
We would be pleased to invite you for a introductory call so that we c…
Thank you very much for responding so quickly to my email.
We are looking at the fishmeal industry around the world and the related supply chains, both in terms of the materials sourced to produce fishmeal and fish oil and the use of fishmeal and fish oil in aquaculture. As you can imagine, given that we are looking at the industry globally, we are dealing with quite a few companies as part of this investigation and we prefer to stay in writing and on record.
In the spirit of being comprehensive and transparent, we found it essential to check with you about all the content that our reporti…
We keep on preparing the response for the requested information and comments but it takes a bit longer time than we planned as we have to go through all the investigation reports for the mentioned accidents.
We need at least 24 hours more to finalize the response and therefore ask for the extension. Hope you can wait one day more.
Please find attached our response. I also attach additional documents which we refer to in the response and material that can be useful to understand the general legal framework in Russian and our corporate standard that also addresses the labour and social conditions on the vessels in compliance with the best international practice.
Attachments:
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[ the Regulations for Work on Fishing Vessels of the Russian Federation approved by the Order of the Ministry of A…