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Report

29 Jul 2018

Author:
Katrina Nakamura, Lori Bishop, Trevor Ward, Ganapathiraju Pramod, Dominic Chakra Thomson, Patima Tungpuchayakul and Sompong Srakaew

Seeing slavery in seafood supply chains

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In the global seafood industry, flows of raw materials from fishing vessels and aquaculture farms are tracked over long distances with incredible accuracy, but the hands pulling fish from the net disappear from sight...

In 2016, widespread forced labor in seafood work was reported in 47 countries... with incidents reported in additional countries, including New Zealand, Ireland, the United States, and Taiwan...

We screened 118 seafood products between 2014 and 2017 with 18 participating food companies. We produced accurate pictures of working conditions across each supply chain...