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 that in 2018, Pesquera Herco joined the Ecuador small pelagics Fishery Improvement Project (FIP), a program that claims to help make participating fisheries more sustainable. Plants and their parent companies routinely use involvement in FIPs and…