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Published 8 years ago by BlueOracle with 1 Comments

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  • FishKnight (edited 8 years ago)
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    Will you please post this in /t/fish?

    This is such an evil way to treat fellow human beings. Supporting aquaculture is one of the few things consumers can do to about this situation. The article says that most of the fish exported by Thailand ends up in pet and livestock feed. It is good to know that some companies are trying to make the move to more sustainable sources, including farmed seafood. Apparently MARS is one of these companies. Lets hope they stay committed and others move in that direction.

    In interviews, those who fled recounted horrific violence: the sick cast overboard, the defiant beheaded, the insubordinate sealed for days below deck in a dark, fetid fishing hold... Short-handed at the 11th hour, captains sometimes take desperate measures. “They just snatch people,” one captain explained, noting that some migrants are drugged or kidnapped and forced onto boats... Former deckhands described “prison islands” — most often uninhabited atolls, of which there are hundreds in the South China Sea. Fishing captains sometimes maroon their captive crews on those islands, sometimes for weeks, while their vessels are taken to port for dry docking and repair... Fishing boat workers on an Indonesian island called Benjina were kept in cages to prevent them from fleeing

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