Fu Yuan Yu 7886
Fu Yuan Yu 7886
福远渔7886
Ship Details
- IMO
- 9842293
- MMSI
- 412440606
- Call Sign
- BVZA7
- Gear
- Pole & Line
- Status
- Active
Crimes & Concerns
- Labor & Human Rights
- Miscellaneous
The Fu Yuan Yu 7886 is directly associated with labor & human rights issues such as forced labor, forced labor risk, worker death, beriberi symptoms, Global Magnitsky sanctions, violence or assault, and wage-related violation and subsidies.
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- Summary of crew member deaths and potential beriberi cases
- The Fu Yuan Yu 7886 is associated with at least one crew member death and at least one potential beriberi case.
- Labor & Human Rights
- Between 2019 and 2020, a fisherman on board the Fu Yuan Yu 7886 submitted a complaint to the Indonesian Fishermen's Union (SBMI) about forced labor concerns involving abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity documents, wage withholding, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime.
- The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has blocked the Fu Yuan Yu 7886 because of the vessel operator's involvement in the 2017 transshipment of thousands of shark carcasses and because of crew reports of physical violence and forced labor on Pingtan Marine Enterprise vessels. Pingtan Marine Enterprise, a Chinese seafood conglomerate, and it's affiliate companies, Pingtan County Ocean Fishing Group Co Ltd and Fuzhou Honglong Ocean Fishing Co Ltd, were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Office in December 2022. The U.S. Treasury Office identified 125 vessels associated with these companies and designated them as blocked property.
- In July 2020, Filipino deckhand Felix Mark Guial died aboard the Fu Yuan Yu 7886. The previous month, a Chinese deckhand suffering from beriberi symptoms, including swelling and difficulty breathing, was airlifted from the vessel south of Hainan, China.
- Miscellaneous
- The Fu Yuan Yu 7886 received Chinese state subsidies in 2019.
Testimonials
Two Indonesian workers onboard the Fu Yuan Yu 7886 reported the vessel to the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union between May 2019 and June 2020. They shared their experiences on the Chinese squid jigger and the problems they faced, which matched categories that the International Labour Organization, the UN agency for workers’ rights, say are indicators of forced labor. These included: abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, physical violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity documents, withholding of wages, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime. The testimonies were published in a 2021 Greenpeace report.[^1]