[Excerpt translation provided by Business and Human Rights Resource Centre]

"Chinese fleets in Galapagos: "foreign fishing vessels land at least one dead crew member per month"

Milko Schvartzman, an expert in analysing the operations of this fleet, concluded, after analysing official information from the Uruguayan Navy, that Chinese and Taiwanese vessels arriving in the port of Montevideo land an average of one dead crew member per month. The United States State Department confirmed these facts in its latest report on human trafficking and smuggling... A few years ago, I also detected that part of the fleet operating in the South Atlantic is the one that goes to the Pacific to the Galapagos Islands... We are based on official data from the Uruguayan Navy, which we have written and signed, and other data that we have obtained, for example, from the Indonesian embassy in Uruguay. All data confirmed. In fact, the latest report on human trafficking and smuggling produced by the U.S. State Department indicates that on average, since 2013, one crew member per month is landed in the port of Montevideo from fishing vessels with flags from Taiwan and China...Environmental destruction, human rights abuses including slavery of their crews, and economic and social impact on the fishing communities of our countries.