[jon914]

What surprises me most about this article is that the author was able to gain some visibility (sugarcoated or not) into this industry, in China no less.

Slaughterhouses and meat processors in the US, in particular, are notoriously opaque about their operations in a way that would make Apple's practices seem lenient by comparison.

[jakarta]

One of the reasons might be that there are a couple of publicly traded 'aquaculture' companies in China that are kind of desperate to show that they aren't frauds.

One is mentioned in the article, HQ Sustainable Marine.

So typically if investors show up to these small companies, they will try to do whatever they can to take them around their factories and show that the business is real.