US lawmakers, NGOs continue push against IUU in wake of Outlaw Ocean reporting

Agroup of U.S. government representatives, including U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Arizona), and a pair of Canada-based NGOs are pushing the U.S. and Canadian governments to step up enforcement against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and human rights violations identified in an Outlaw Ocean report. 

Outlaw Ocean first published its report on seafood being processed with Uyghur labor in China making its way into U.S. supply chains in October 2023. That report named an array of Chinese companies that allegedly used Uyghur and forced labor when processing seafood.

Since that time, seafood suppliers have dropped relationships with the Chinese companies named in the report, human rights campaigners have called for shake-ups of seafood certification schemes, NGOs have filed requests to place Chinese companies under Magnitsky sanctions, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has added seafood to its list of priorities in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

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By:  Chris Chase
Source: Seafood Source

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