Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea

Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea

Alastair Couper, Bruno Ciceri

Language: English

Pages: 216

ISBN: 0745335918

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Fishers and Plunderers focuses on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry that gives little consideration to either conservation or human rights. In a business characterized by overprovisioned vessels and shortages of fish, young men are routinely trafficked from poor areas onto fishing boats to work under conditions of virtual slavery. Poverty and debt push many towards piracy and drugs—although the criminality linked to the industry extends far beyond any individual worker, vessel, or fleet. Fishers and Plunderers provides strong evidence of industry-wide crimes and injustices and argues for regulations that protect the rights of fishers across the board.

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5,420,247 5,107,559 4,807,923 4,068,850 3,611,384 3,402,405 2,572,881 2,418,700 2,332,790 2,149,802 2,127,046 1,660,165 1,612,073 1,472,239 1,467,790 1,449,452 1,158,474 Source: FAO, State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture: Opportunities and challenges, Rome: FAO, 2014. half-millennium, the period in which human impacts upon marine ecosystems have been appreciable, as well as looking forward to the nature of future impacts.18 On the management front, an idea which is gradually gaining traction.

Example, in temperate regions this includes high-value shellfish such as lobster and crab, and valuable finfish such as sea bass and mackerel, which can be caught using pots, hand lines or small nets. In the tropical developing world the high biodiversity of fish stocks is reflected in a wide range of especially demersal species landed. Landings are into small ports to local markets, although high-value shellfish enter national and international logistics chains. The fishers are subject to the.

About this there.17 For accidents and incidents, consistent statistics at global level only exist for vessels of over 500 gross registered tons (GRT), and for total losses – in effect for the distant-water sector together with the largest vessels in the major commercial sector. Reliable statistics for SSF and major commercial-sector fisheries only exist in countries with fully developed fisheries and maritime safety administrations: for example, in North America and Western Europe. Individual.

Had ‘suffered four operations at Mahimbile National Hospital. I didn’t expect such a thing to happen.’ There have been no arrests. The EU consultant who had been working on the project wrote, ‘Once our expedition officially ended, the dynamiting once more started, almost immediately, and continued as before.’ The injured fishery officer added, ‘If we are serious we must educate the village leaders, as the leaders of wards, districts and regions. And the courts have to uphold the law.’ Clearly,.

Such sinkings of Vietnamese ships. In December 2014 the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry ‘Instructed the Navy to seize 13 illegal fishing vessels from China and Taiwan detected in Indonesian waters’, under a policy of deterrence.32 Chapter 5 described how local small-scale fishers in Asia by their own volition sank intruding craft, and there were killings of foreign fishers. A method introduced by EJF in West Africa empowers local fishers to a greater degree by supplying them with.

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