Despite clear evidence of human rights abuses in China’s seafood industry, tainted products remain on Canadian shelves.
Last year, a four-year investigation by the Outlaw Ocean Project revealed the use of forced labour and other gross human rights violations in China’s seafood industry, including Uyghur exploitation. The violations span their operations on land and their operations at sea.
In 2020, the U.S. Department of Labour found many deckhands on Chinese vessels “work involuntarily under conditions of coercion, fraud, intimidation or debt bondage.”