EJF’s latest report, Unseen and Unaccountable, exposes the alarming environmental and human rights toll of China’s distant-water squid fleet in the Southeast Pacific. It draws on investigations that reveal widespread shark finning, marine mammal capture, abusive labour practices, and the unloading of deceased crew into Latin American ports. The report also highlights major governance failures: despite early warnings of a decline in the squid population, neither China nor SPRFMO have put in place adequate monitoring and enforcement mechanisms. With most squid trans-shipped at sea and processed in China before reaching global markets, the report calls for urgent reforms to end IUU fishing and forced labour in the world’s most important squid fishery.