Correspondence
Email sent to Dayseaday Frozen CEOs Henk van Veen and Jelle Van Veen.
The email said that Dayseaday Frozen has imported squid from Rongcheng Guangrun Aquatic Food, a company based in China and owned by the Shandong Bodelong Group. Bodelong Group squid vessels have committed numerous illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing offenses, including disabling transmitters and discarding thousands of kilos of squid into the sea, and have disembarked at least two dead deckhands in the Port of Montevideo, in 2016 and 2019. One vessel also disembarked an ill deckhand in Montevideo in 2020 who had symptoms of beriberi, a sign of severe neglect. The email asked for comment.
Leen Snoek, Purchase Manager at Dayseaday, replied: "We discussed this matter internally. We bought from this factory the last time in 2021. We will share this information with the agent that has arranged the contract for us. With the info you send us we will not work with this factory again. Thanks for sharing this information with us. Good luck with the project."