We were in contact with you in 2023 concerning our investigation into China’s seafood processing industry. We are contacting you now 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. 

An aquaculture company in Turkey called Kılıç Deniz is a fish supplier to Waitrose, according to a 2025 report from Desmog, an investigative group based in the UK.…

I emailed your office on March 9, 2026, about our ongoing investigation into aquaculture and the global fishmeal and fish oil industry. We have found additional supply chain connections which we wanted to bring to Waitrose for comment or clarification.

Between 2023 and 2024, a company called Tiscop Trading sent at least 12 shipments of fishmeal to the feed company Irida S.A., according to trade data. Separately, a company called Protein and Oil Industry supplied fishmeal to Irida in 2025, according to an Aquaculture Stewardship Council feed audit. Both Copelit and Protein and Oil Industry are…