Correspondence
Email sent to CEO and CCO of Kramers' Seafood.
The email said that Kramers' Seafood is supplied by Qingdao Tianyuan, which has received persons transferred from the Xinjiang region of China under a state-imposed forced labor transfer program since 2020, and until at least May 2023. The email asked for comment.
Email sent to Kramers' Seafood saying that trade records show that Kramers’ Seafood imported shipments of Alaska pollock from a processor in China called Qingao Lian Yang in 2021 and 2022. Qingdao Lian Yang has received persons transferred from the Xinjiang region of China under the same government labor transfer program referred to in our previous email, since at least April 2022 and as recently as April 2023. Qingdao Lian Yang is also linked to Qingdao Tianyuan, which has supplied pollock to Kramers and was referred to in our previous email, through corporate ownership. The email asked for comment.