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:

1. On November 5, 2020, a team of government investigators raided several fishmeal plants in the Cuncolim Industrial Estate in Goa, India, including United Marine Products. Though plant officials from United Marine Products initially tried to bl…

We at United Marine Products are in receipt of your investigation report and with regard to the same we have to submit the following clarifications;

1. On November 13, 2020 a team of government officials viz. The Goa State Pollution Control Board (“GSPCB”) officials inspected our premises in the course of their similar inspections of other Fish processing units in the Cuncolim Industrial Estate. Subsequent to their inspection on 13th November, 2020, it was alleged in the Navhind Times Publications that 10 illegal borewells were discovered in our plant and that we were disposing waste water…

Thank you very much for your response of September 30, 2025, addressing the issues raised in our email.

Since then, our investigation into aquaculture and the global fishmeal and fish oil industry has found further information concerning United Marine Products:

On August 5, 2022, local environmental authorities ordered 15 fishmeal companies, including United Marine Products, in the Ullal and Mangalore areas of India to shut down. The reason for the order, according to the Karnataka State Pollution Board, was that these plants were “constantly polluting air and water” in violation of the Air…

We at United Marine Products are in receipt of your investigation report and with regard to the same we have to submit the following clarification:

We at United Marine Products felt that we were not given sufficient time to respond before a drastic step was taken by the local authorities. There was also a lack of evidence about the effluents discharged to the sea since a common effluent water treatment plant was in place. In the uear 2022, we were in the interim stage of upgrading our pollution control systems. As per the report, it is highlighted that companies continuously dumped industria…