Report: Illegal fishing and labor abuse rampant in China s Indian Ocean fleet mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In recent years, labor issues on industrial fishing vessels have received increased attention, commanding headlines in prominent media outlets. Terrible working and living conditions even forced labor are commonplace, especially on distant-water fleets that ply the high seas and the waters of foreign countries. And yet ship owners are rarely held to account. […]
From Bait to Plate – Tracking the Chinese Fishing Ships Linked to Rights and Labour Abuses at Sea pulitzercenter.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pulitzercenter.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In recent decades, working aggressively to expand its might, China has transformed itself into the world’s seafood superpower. This pre-eminence has come at a grave human and environmental cost. Part Four: Preventing abuses by tracing seafood from bait to plate proves difficult.