The World's Third-Largest Seafood Exporter Has A Slavery Problem

[cavanami]

Sounds sad...

 

The world's third-largest seafood exporter has a slavery problem

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-third-largest-seafood-exporter-has-a-slavery-problem-2015-2

 

Urine pools under a bed where an emaciated Burmese man lies wearing only a T-shirt and a diaper.

As he struggles to sit up and steady himself, he tears at his thick, dark hair in agitation. He cannot walk and doesn't remember his family or even his own name. He speaks mostly gibberish in broken Indonesian - a language he learned while working in the country as a slave aboard a Thai fishing boat.

 

Near death from a lack of proper food, he was rescued from a tiny island in Indonesia two months ago. He is just one of countless hidden casualties from the fishing industry in Thailand, the world's third-largest seafood exporter.

 

A report released Wednesday by the British nonprofit Environmental Justice Foundation said that overfishing and the use of illegal and undocumented trawlers have ravaged Thailand's marine ecosystems and depleted fish stocks. Boats are now catching about 85 percent less than what they brought in 50 years ago, making it "one of the most overfished regions on the planet," the report said...

[bust]

I watched this recently. Wonder where Jason is now?

http://mtvexit.org/blog/mtv-exit-live-in-myanmar-with-jason-mraz/