[
  {
    "id": "E01",
    "name": "Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C01"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S02"
    ],
    "role": "Refrigerated carrier in the Ecuador wildlife-transport proceedings",
    "identity_note": "Do not describe this carrier as the vessel that caught all cargo; ship disposition after judgment requires follow-up."
  },
  {
    "id": "E02",
    "name": "Hong Long (name in Ecuador judgment)",
    "type": "company_record",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C01"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S02"
    ],
    "role": "Owner named in the judicial record",
    "identity_note": "Preserve court spelling; reconcile legal identity with Treasury’s Fuzhou Honglong record before merging records automatically."
  },
  {
    "id": "E03",
    "name": "Hua Li 8",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Hua Li8"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C02"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S08"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel in Argentina–Indonesia enforcement account",
    "identity_note": "Stable identifiers and event-date ownership still needed."
  },
  {
    "id": "E04",
    "name": "Dalian Ocean Fishing Company Limited",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [
      "Dalian Ocean Fishing",
      "DOF"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "OFAC 33768"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C03"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S03",
      "S09",
      "S11"
    ],
    "role": "Sanctioned fleet company; historical WRO subject",
    "identity_note": "Do not conflate with similarly translated Liaoning/Dalian Ocean Fishery Group names without original legal identifiers."
  },
  {
    "id": "E05",
    "name": "Li Zhenyu",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [
      "LI, Zhenyu"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "OFAC 33770"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C03"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S03",
      "S11"
    ],
    "role": "Individual designated in connection with Dalian Ocean Fishing",
    "identity_note": "Sanctions are administrative; do not infer a criminal conviction."
  },
  {
    "id": "E06",
    "name": "Long Xing 629",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Long Xing629",
      "Longxing 629"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C03"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S03",
      "S10"
    ],
    "role": "Tuna/longline vessel in labor-abuse reporting and government findings",
    "identity_note": "Do not assign all deaths in a multi-vessel investigation to this one ship."
  },
  {
    "id": "E07",
    "name": "Pingtan Marine Enterprise Ltd.",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [
      "PME"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "OFAC 33675"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C04"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S03",
      "S11",
      "S12"
    ],
    "role": "Designated company with SEC-filed compliance response",
    "identity_note": "Corporate control and continuing operations need event-date documentation; not every connected business is a subsidiary."
  },
  {
    "id": "E08",
    "name": "Fuzhou Honglong Ocean Fishing Co. Ltd.",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [
      "Fuzhou Honglong"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "OFAC 33680"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C04"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S03",
      "S11"
    ],
    "role": "Designated fishing company in Treasury’s network account",
    "identity_note": "Keep source-native corporate names; link to court’s Hong Long label only after identity reconciliation."
  },
  {
    "id": "E09",
    "name": "Xinrong Zhuo",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [
      "ZHUO, Xinrong",
      "Zhuo Xinrong"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "OFAC 33674"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C04"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S03",
      "S11"
    ],
    "role": "Individual designated in the Pingtan/Honglong network",
    "identity_note": "Record exact Treasury-described relationships rather than inferring ownership of every affiliated ship."
  },
  {
    "id": "E10",
    "name": "Zhoushan Ningtai Ocean Fishery",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [
      "Zhoushan Ningtai"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C08"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S05"
    ],
    "role": "Fishing operator in carrier/support research",
    "identity_note": "Legal name, registry number and current ownership need primary verification."
  },
  {
    "id": "E11",
    "name": "Wei Fong Shipping",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [
      "Wei Fong Shipping Company Limited"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C08"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S05"
    ],
    "role": "Carrier company in support-network research",
    "identity_note": "Service relationship is not a finding of unlawful or knowing assistance."
  },
  {
    "id": "E12",
    "name": "Wei Yu 18",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Wei Yu18"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "IMO 8782587"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C09"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S15"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel in reported labor and death incidents",
    "identity_note": "Present-day registry/operator not independently checked."
  },
  {
    "id": "E13",
    "name": "Weihai Huanhai Aquatic",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C09"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S15"
    ],
    "role": "Operator associated with Wei Yu 18 by investigative record",
    "identity_note": "Relationship is attributed to source and historical period; original corporate record needed."
  },
  {
    "id": "E14",
    "name": "Shandong Meijia Group",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [
      "Rizhao Meijia Group"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "Federal Register document 2024-12631"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C10"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S16"
    ],
    "role": "Seafood processing company listed in 2024 UFLPA action",
    "identity_note": "Alias is from the notice; current listing and individual plant identities need separate checks."
  },
  {
    "id": "E15",
    "name": "Kaven Company",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [
      "U.S. case 3:14-cr-003662"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C11"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S06",
      "S17",
      "S35"
    ],
    "role": "Company that entered a marine-wildlife smuggling guilty plea",
    "identity_note": "Guilty pleas and later sentencing are documented; exact penalty components require the judgments because the bulletin is ambiguous."
  },
  {
    "id": "E16",
    "name": "Kam Wing Chan",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [
      "U.S. case 3:14-cr-003662"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C11"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S06",
      "S17",
      "S35"
    ],
    "role": "Kaven owner who entered a guilty plea",
    "identity_note": "Guilty pleas and later sentencing are documented; exact penalty components require the judgments because the bulletin is ambiguous."
  },
  {
    "id": "E17",
    "name": "Kway Fey 10078",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C13"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S20",
      "S21"
    ],
    "role": "Fishing vessel in Natuna confrontation",
    "identity_note": "No common Americas operator established; stable identifiers and owner require primary records."
  },
  {
    "id": "E18",
    "name": "Winson Group",
    "type": "company_group",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C15"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S05"
    ],
    "role": "Party disputing attributed ownership/control in carrier investigation",
    "identity_note": "Do not render disputed vessel ownership as an established relationship."
  },
  {
    "id": "E19",
    "name": "Ocean Splendid",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C15"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S05"
    ],
    "role": "Carrier in disputed-attribution research",
    "identity_note": "Original registry/control history required before a definitive ownership claim."
  },
  {
    "id": "E20",
    "name": "Angel No. 2",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Angel No.2"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C15"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S05"
    ],
    "role": "Carrier in disputed-attribution research",
    "identity_note": "Original registry/control history required before a definitive ownership claim."
  },
  {
    "id": "E21",
    "name": "Jing Yuan 626",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Jing Yuan626"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "IMO 9784568"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C16"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S26",
      "S34"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel named in an Argentine international capture-order announcement",
    "identity_note": "Original government announcement establishes the order and alleged obstruction. Final judicial disposition and current operator remain unresolved."
  },
  {
    "id": "E22",
    "name": "Hua Li 18",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C17"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S36"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel named in the ministry’s unauthorized-transfer notice",
    "identity_note": "Original name 华利18; stable hull identifier not yet established."
  },
  {
    "id": "E23",
    "name": "Hong Run 55",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C17"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S36"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel named in the ministry’s unauthorized-transfer notice",
    "identity_note": "Original name 宏润55; stable hull identifier not yet established."
  },
  {
    "id": "E24",
    "name": "Ning Tai 62",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C17"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S36"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel named in the ministry’s unauthorized-transfer notice",
    "identity_note": "Original name 宁泰62; do not transfer this finding to every sister ship."
  },
  {
    "id": "E25",
    "name": "Hai Zhi Xing 801",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C18"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S36"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel subject to an unauthorized AIS-change finding",
    "identity_note": "Original name 海之星801; current identity and authorization not independently verified."
  },
  {
    "id": "E26",
    "name": "Ming Xiang 899",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C18"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S36"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel sharing the AIS number in the ministry notice",
    "identity_note": "Original name 明翔899; its possible relationship with the other ship remained under investigation."
  },
  {
    "id": "E27",
    "name": "Zhoushan Mingxiang Ocean Fishery",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C18"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S36"
    ],
    "role": "Company named for Hai Zhi Xing 801",
    "identity_note": "Original name 舟山市明翔远洋渔业有限公司; English name is a descriptive translation."
  },
  {
    "id": "E28",
    "name": "Pingtan Fishing",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C04"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S37",
      "S03"
    ],
    "role": "Operating company in the related-party financing disclosure",
    "identity_note": "Historical guarantees and collateral are not the same relationship as share ownership."
  },
  {
    "id": "E29",
    "name": "China Minsheng Bank",
    "type": "financial_institution",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C04"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S37"
    ],
    "role": "Lender named in a historical company financing disclosure",
    "identity_note": "No wrongdoing by the lender is established by inclusion in this record."
  },
  {
    "id": "E30",
    "name": "Zhen Fa 7",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [
      "IMO 8776966",
      "MMSI 412326884"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C19"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S43",
      "S42"
    ],
    "role": "Fishing vessel investigated for crew abuses and subject to the May 2025 U.S. seafood WRO.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E31",
    "name": "Rongcheng Wangdao Ocean Aquatic Products",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C19"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S43",
      "S44"
    ],
    "role": "Operator identified by The Outlaw Ocean Project; denies the reported abuses.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E32",
    "name": "Hong Pu 16",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C20"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S39",
      "S40"
    ],
    "role": "Chinese-flagged squid vessel captured in Argentina in May 2020.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E33",
    "name": "Lu Rong Yuan Yu 668",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C21"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S41",
      "S40"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel returned to Puerto Madryn following April 2020 detection.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E34",
    "name": "Rongcheng City Rongyuan Fishery Co. Ltd.",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C21"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S40"
    ],
    "role": "Company named in the Argentine government’s payment account.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E35",
    "name": "Run Da 608",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C22"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S46",
      "S47"
    ],
    "role": "Chinese vessel involved in a 2018 Peruvian squid seizure and later prosecution.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E36",
    "name": "Zhuang Hanbo",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C22"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S47"
    ],
    "role": "Captain named in the 2020 prosecution announcement; final judgment not verified.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E37",
    "name": "Zhoushan Zhongju Ocean Fisheries",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C22"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S47"
    ],
    "role": "Company named in the prosecutor’s requested joint civil reparation.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E38",
    "name": "Tai An",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C23"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S49",
      "S50"
    ],
    "role": "Argentine vessel investigated over toothfish catches and reporting.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E39",
    "name": "Prodesur S.A.",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C23"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S50",
      "S73"
    ],
    "role": "Owner/operator associated with Tai An; reported incidental-catch defense.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E40",
    "name": "Liu Zhijiang",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C23"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S73",
      "S50"
    ],
    "role": "Chinese-born entrepreneur associated with Prodesur; not identified as a state official.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E41",
    "name": "Yuelin Gan Cao",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C24"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S51",
      "S52"
    ],
    "role": "Individual convicted according to Peru’s 2023 official reports of attempted shark-fin export.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E42",
    "name": "Song Shen Zhen",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C26"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S55"
    ],
    "role": "Defendant sentenced in 2014 in the Mexico–U.S. totoaba-smuggling case.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E43",
    "name": "Lu Qing Yuan Yu 901",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Fu Lu Qing Yuan Yu 901"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C27"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S58",
      "S59"
    ],
    "role": "Vessel named in 2020 Indonesian survivor and recruiter-investigation reporting.",
    "identity_note": "Reporting varies the vessel-name prefix. No IMO match is asserted; do not merge with other numbered vessels."
  },
  {
    "id": "E44",
    "name": "Yong Xing 1",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Hong Rui 198 (reported AIS alias)"
    ],
    "identifiers": [
      "IMO 8776497",
      "2020 broadcast MMSI 412326889",
      "2020 broadcast MMSI 440106889",
      "2020 broadcast MMSI 701006889"
    ],
    "case_ids": [
      "C28"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S60",
      "S72"
    ],
    "role": "Chinese squid vessel analyzed for multiple broadcast identities in 2020.",
    "identity_note": "Historical vessel identity anchored by IMO8776497. Names and MMSI country prefixes do not prove current flag registration."
  },
  {
    "id": "E45",
    "name": "Zhou Yu 929",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C29"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S61",
      "S62"
    ],
    "role": "One of two vessels in the August 2022 refused-inspection dispute; not placed on the 2023 final IUU list.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E46",
    "name": "Pu Yuan 755",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C29"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S61",
      "S62"
    ],
    "role": "One of two vessels in the August 2022 refused-inspection dispute; not placed on the 2023 final IUU list.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E47",
    "name": "Damanzaihao",
    "type": "vessel",
    "aliases": [
      "Vladivostok 2000",
      "Lafayette"
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C30"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S63",
      "S64",
      "S65",
      "S67"
    ],
    "role": "Processing mother ship historically IUU-listed; renamed and delisted in 2020.",
    "identity_note": "Names refer to a dated ownership history; 2020 delisting must remain attached. Current ownership not asserted."
  },
  {
    "id": "E48",
    "name": "Sustainable Fishing Resources",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C30"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S67",
      "S68"
    ],
    "role": "Historical company associated with the Damanzaihao; no claim of current control.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E49",
    "name": "Pacific Andes group",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C30"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S67",
      "S68"
    ],
    "role": "Historical corporate group associated with the vessel and Peruvian operations.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E50",
    "name": "Casey’s Seafood, Inc.",
    "type": "company",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C31"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S69",
      "S71"
    ],
    "role": "Virginia processor in the false domestic-origin crab case.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  },
  {
    "id": "E51",
    "name": "James R. Casey",
    "type": "individual",
    "aliases": [],
    "identifiers": [],
    "case_ids": [
      "C31"
    ],
    "source_ids": [
      "S70",
      "S71"
    ],
    "role": "Owner sentenced in January 2019 for the crab-labeling conspiracy.",
    "identity_note": "Historical attribution from the cited record; not a fresh registry check."
  }
]