In February 2022, reporter Ian Urbina in the high seas near the Falkland Islands prepared and throw plastic bottles weighed down with rice, and that contained a pen, cigarettes, hard candy, and interview questions written in English, Chinese, and Indonesian, to toss onto their aft decks.
Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two thirds of the planet covered by water.on the South Atlantic – On the high seas roughly a thousand miles north of the Falkland Islands, an 18-year-old deckhand working on a Chinese squid ship nervously ducked into a dark hallway to whisper his plea for help. “Our passports were taken,” he said to me.
In August 2019, The Outlaw Ocean Project team inspects a Chinese fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa.Journalists, especially from the West, are rarely, if ever, permitted aboard Chinese ships. To get a glimpse into this world, my team and I visited China’s fishing ships in their largest fishing grounds: near the Galapagos Islands; near the Falkland Islands; off the Coast of Gambia; and in the Sea of Japan, near Korea.
In August 2019, Ian Urbina climbs inside the dangerous and dirty area where African deckhands sleep aboard a Chinese fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa.Our investigations revealed for the first time that Uyghurs are also being transferred to work in the seafood industry.
We also identified North Korean labor used in China’s seafood-processing industry. The Chinese government has largely scrubbed references to these workers from the internet, but by using the search term “North Korean beauties,” we found dozens of videos on Douyin of what appear to be female seafood-plant workers, most posted by male employees.
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