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 Tecnológica de Alimentos S.A. (Tasa):
- The Tecnológica de Alimentos plant is a “generator of pollution both directly and indirectly” in the Puerto Supe area, and “the odors produced by the factories in Puerto Supe…
Thank you for your communication. Please note that we have only recently come across your message, as this mailbox is intended primarily for internal correspondence among employees.
Given that your inquiry concerns external communications matters, we have referred it to the appropriate person in charge, who has been copied on this email. He will review your request and provide a response within approximately ten (10) business days due to the amount of information requested.
Thanks for your email. Regarding a phone call: We are currently reaching out to a large number of companies around the world and would prefer to keep everything on record in writing as it is easier to keep track of all the moving parts.
Thanks. In that case, will you kindly share a little more information about your project? Are all the companies that you are contacting only in the fishing industry? Will you also please tell me why your data call is so large if you're in touch with so many businesses? What is your goal for the project? When do you expect to publish and will your final product be in print only? Thanks so much for any details you can share.
We are talking with a wide variety of companies across the fishmeal and fish oil companies globally. The purpose of the reporting is to look at goals and costs of the feed industry and its impacts on people and the planet. We are not certain about the publishing date for the project but some time later this year. Our questions are broad because we want to give companies wide latitude for input. You can review our website: www.theoutlawocean.com to see the variety of ways our reporting is published (typically in multiple forms). Thanks again.
Thanks so much for the information. It's particularly helpful. Can you also tell me if you are in a big hurry or if receiving Tasa's information next week is sufficient?
How are you? I hope everything is going well. Adrienne Ross, our advisor in the US, told us that she is already in contact with you. She will let you know about future arrangements and deadlines for your questionnaire, based on the times that you are handle for your journalistic investigation.
Thank you for contacting TASA regarding the work you are preparing on the industrial fishing industry. In response to your questions, please find the documented answers to each of them in the attached PDF. Additionally, you will find the supporting documents online in this file. We are sharing these details with the understanding that they will be used only as background information for your report. As your project progresses and it becomes clearer what information you may wish to attribute directly to TASA (“on the record”), please contact us in advance. We will be open to providing sources…
Thanks for your email and for the detailed statement responding to each of the issues raised in my original email to TASA. As stated in that email and in my prior email to you all replies will be treated as on record, and all replies will be published in full. We will review all of TASA’s responses to the issues and will come back to you if we have any further questions.