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Seafood Slavery

WHERE DOES YOUR SEAFOOD COME FROM? OUT POUNDS OF US SEAFOOD OF IMPORTS COME FROM THAILAND MAKING THEM AMERICA'S SEAFOOD THAILAND EXPORTS $2.5 BILLION USA WORTH OF SEAFOOD TO NO. 2 ŠOPPLIER. BUT PORTIONS OF THAILAND'S WILD-CAUGHT SEAFOOD INDUSTRY ARE TAINTED BY FORCED LABOR. MUCH OF THE INDUSTRY SEES ITSELF AS POWERLESS IN REGULATING THE SLAVE TRADE. 1. THAI GHOST SHIPS Unregistered deep sea ihing boats that saldom come LAUNDERING SLAVE-CAUGHT SEAFOOD ashore. Typical crew consists of captain, mechanic, crew boss and 7 to 20 slaves from Cambodia/Myanmar. Beatings and killings are common. Quitting is not an option. 2. THE MOTHERSHIPS Floating markets that cold-store and transport seafood to brokers on land from both legitimate and ghost ships alike every month. Seafood caught by paid fishermen and slaves intermingles. 3. THE BROKERS Middlemen purchasing the seafood from motherships. Brokers tend to mix the catch of multiple boats, making legal and slave-caught fish even harder to distinguish. %24 5. THE SUPERMARKET Seafood goes to markets worldwide. An inquisitive consumer or retailer attempting to trace a product's origins via barcode will dicover, at best, its processing plant. But most of the supply chain leading to deep-sea ships is concealed. 4. THE FACTORIES High-value seafood products such as mackerel, squid and anchovies are cleaned and processed in Thai factories. The plants are staffed largely by migrant workers receiving low wages. FISHY BUSINESS WHAT PERCENTAGE OF US SEAFOOD IMPORTS ARE THAI? Sardines Cuttlefish Mackerel 16% (5.6M kilos) 16% (0.5M kilos) 17% (4.IM klos) Processed fish balls, puddings and cakes Fish sauce (from trawler trash fish) 30% (4.6M kilos) 78% (17.7M kilos) SOURCES United Nations National Marine Fisheries Service Labor Rights Promotion Network Mirror Foundation DESIGNED BY KYLE KIM Okyleykim

Seafood Slavery

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For Americans, the calculation is worrisome. Thailand is the United States’ second-largest supplier of foreign seafood. Of America's total seafood imports, one out of every six pounds comes from the...

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