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. […]
Foreign fishing boats docking in Cape Town do so behind a veil of secrecy. Crews are often only in port for a few days, their passports withheld and visits by locals are not easily permitted. Behind that veil are deaths at sea, suicide, shocking working conditions, unlicenced boats flying flags.
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