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  • Statute of limitations revoked in illegal fishing cases
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    • Thai fishing industry: abuses continue in unpoliced waters, Greenpeace claims
      Kate Hodal
      Thursday 15 December 2016

      Report alleges exposure of human rights abuses including trafficking and labour exploitation has simply prompted move to more remote waters



      Photograph: Barbara Walton/EPA the fourth largest in the world, according to the most recent figuresclean up or face a ban on EU importsIndonesia and Papua New Guinea, often using fake permits and ghost fleets to avoid inspection by authorities. But a new government policy to sink vessels caught fishing illegally in Indonesian watersThailandpart of an underwater ridge that connects Mauritius with the Seychelleslegislative efforts to curb both IUU fishing and human rights abuses at seahospitalisation and death of a number of Cambodian and Thai fishermen earlier this year who had been aboard a Saya de Malha reefer for nine months continuously.

      According to a 2016 Thai government report, nearly half of the 1,000 fishermen on 50 vessels in Saya de Malha bank were working in violation of immigration and labour laws, Greenpeace claims. Interviews with fishermen on board tuna gillnetters
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      • Thai fishing fleet moving to Indian ocean to avoid regulation, finds Greenpeace investigation

        Press release - 15 December, 2016

        BangkokNotes to the Editor:

        [1] Turn the Tide report can be downloaded here

        [2] Greenpeace (2016) Focus group interviews with 15 Cambodian trafficking survivors, Ranong, April 2016

        [3] Murua, H. et al (2013) Provision of scientific advice for the purpose of the implementation of the EUPOA sharks

        [4] Beriberi is a fatal disease that results from a lack of Thiamine (Vitamin B1) in the body. Symptoms include swelling, pain in the limbs, loss of sensation and paralysis, muscular atrophy, shortness of breath and cardiovascular failure.

        [5] Greenpeace (2016) Interview with Dr. Thirawat Hemajutha, Bangkok, June 2016

        [6] Centre for Disease Control, Thailand (2016)
        Media Contacts:

        Anchalee Pipattanawattanakul, Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia
        Tel: +66091 7703521, Email: [email protected]

        Oliver Knowles, Sustainable Tuna Project Lead, Greenpeace New Zealand
        Tel: +64021 455 223, Email: [email protected]

        Therese Salvador, Media Relations Coordinator, Greenpeace Southeast Asia
        Tel: +63917 8228734 Email: [email protected]

        Greenpeace International Press Desk, [email protected], phone: +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours)

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        • Published on Dec 15, 2016#TurnTheTide #SaveOurSeas
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          • The scandal of Thai slave ships
            Alison Ratcliffe
            20 February 2017





            Chronic problem
            Captive crewmates

            When boats do dock, crew movements are often restricted. Members reported to have been at sea for up to 35 months, while others claimed periods of up to five years without touching land

            Deadly trade

            Among Cambodian migrants interviewed for a 2009 UN report, 59% of workers trafficked on to Thai vessels reported witnessing the murder of a fellow worker

            Guilty as charged

            In 2016, the Thai authorities charged 600 people with human trafficking offences. Only 43 of them were involved in exploitation in fishing

            From the high sea to cat food

            The vast majority of workers in the seafood industry are migrants. Exploitation is rife

            With dwindling stocks, boat owners take them far from shore

            Crew are kept on board for months, even years

            Catch is transferred to a larger boat, concealing exploitation

            Tuna is taken worldwide to canneries where it is processed

            Some of the seafood caught by slaves has ended up in pet food

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            • Thailand accused of failing to stamp out murder and slavery in fishing industry
              Felicity Lawrence and Kate Hodal
              Thursday 30 March 2017

              UN labour agency claims migrants employed on fishing vessels in Thai waters remain vulnerable to trafficking and forced labour despite previous warnings

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              Fish are dried on a boat in the Thai fishing port of Bang Saphan.
              Photograph: Patrick Forget/Alamy Stock Photo

              Thailand is failing to protect migrant workers on fishing trawlers from murder and starvation, with trafficking and forced labour still rampant despite new government legislation, according to a new report.

              In an unusually critical rulingfurther evidence that little progress has been made on these issues, despite continued pressure from the EU and US.

              The evidence submitted to the ILO by the International Transport Federation (ITF) and the International Trade Union Conference (ITUC) catalogued various instances of forced labour and abuse on Thai fishing vessels, following a series of interviews with Thai and migrant workers conducted by the ITF in 2015.

              • Workers claimed they were locked up and forced to work on vessels in Indonesian waters, often fishing illegally, despite paying huge recruitment fees. One worker was severely beaten by his captain and chained to the boat by his neck after trying to escape.
              • Workers said they had witnessed the murder of crewmen by their captains. One man claimed his captain shot dead a Cambodian worker and killed four Thai fishermen by throwing them overboard.
              • Workers said they were subject to debt bondage, worked unpaid and witnessed captains physically abusing other crew. They also described 20-hour working days and said food was limited.
              those by the Guardian in 2014. They also underscore reports by the Thai government itself of severe abuses on Thai boats in the Saya de Malha, off the coast of Madagascar, where nearly half of the 1,000 fishermen on 50 vessels were working in violation of immigration and labour laws.

              Interviews by Greenpeace with fishermen on board tuna gillnettersillegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. In 2014, Thailand was clean up or face a ban on EU imports14-year jail sentences for traffickers in the port of Kantang
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              • Report of the Committee set up to examine the representation alleging non-observance by Thailand of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No.29),

                made under
                article 24 of the ILO Constitution by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport

                http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/pub...cms_549113.pdf
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                • Trafficking, debt bondage rampant in Thai fishing industry, study finds
                  Zoe Tabary

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                  Routinely underpaid and physically abused, three-quarters of migrants working on Thai fishing vessels have been in debt bondage

                  LONDON, Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than a third of migrant fishermen in Thailand clearly were victims of trafficking over the past five years and even more workers in the industry were possibly trafficked as well, according to a report published on Thursday.

                  Routinely underpaid and physically abused, three-quarters of migrants working on Thai fishing vessels have been in debt bondage, working to pay off an obligation, said the study by the anti-trafficking group International Justice Mission (IJM).

                  Thailand's multibillion-dollar seafood sector came under fire in recent years after investigations showed widespread slavery, trafficking and violence on fishing boats and in onshore food processing factories.

                  The politically unstable country, which is under military rule, has vowed to crack down on trafficking and recently introduced reforms to its fisheries law.

                  The IJM study of 260 fishermen from Myanmar and Cambodia found 38 percent were clearly trafficked and another 49 percent possibly trafficked.

                  Only 13 percent reported fair labor conditions at sea and no exploitative recruitment, it said.

                  Three-quarters reported working at least 16 hours a day, and only 11 percent said they were paid more than 9,000 Baht ($272 U.S.) per month, the legal monthly minimum wage in Thailand.

                  One fisherman was quoted in the report as saying he was held in debt bondage, owing 20,000 Baht ($604) to his brother, who worked as a supervisor overseeing fishermen.

                  "I fear for my life as he has killed in front of me before," he was quoted as saying. "I don't dare to run. He would kill my children.

                  Field researchers surveyed the 260 fishermen in 20 Thai fishing localities in 2016, collecting information on fishing jobs they had held in the previous five years.

                  Thailand, the world's third-largest seafood exporter, had more than 42,000 active fishing vessels as of 2014 and more than 172,000 people were employed as fishermen, the study said.

                  The study was funded by the Walmart Foundation, the charitable arm of giant U.S. retailer Wal-mart Stores Inc .

                  With release of the study, the Walmart Foundation announced a grant to help the IJM improve law enforcement efforts against human trafficking in the Thai fishing industry. Neither Walmart nor the charity would specify the value of the grant.

                  Walmart spokeswoman Marilee McInnis told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email that "combating forced labour remains a key challenge throughout the world.

                  "Regardless of where it occurs in the global supply chain, Walmart is committed to help eliminate forced labour through transparency and collaboration," she wrote.

                  Gary Haugen, the chief executive of IJM, said in a statement that "no person should have to live under the oppression or ownership of another.

                  "As consumers, we shouldn't have to wonder if the products we're purchasing are the result of violent injustice," he said.

                  (Reporting by Zoe Tabary @zoetabary, additional reporting by Kieran Guilbert, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit http://news.trust.org)

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                    • Indonesia court upholds seizure of illegal fishing vessel
                      October 28, 2017

                      JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia says it has won a two-year court battle that confirms the legality of the government's seizure of a Thai vessel linked to human trafficking and illegal fishing in Indonesian waters.

                      Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Susi Pudjiastuti said the "monumental" ruling from a court in Aceh province shows that governments can win in the fight against cross-border crime.-

                      Pudjiastuti said in a statement this week the ministry plans to make the refrigerated cargo ship, Silver Sea 2, part of a museum to teach the public about illegal fishing.

                      The ship was seized by Indonesia's navy in August 2015 amid a crackdown on illegal fishing and after an Associated Press investigation showed its links to human trafficking in the fishing industry.

                      Several months before its capture, the ship and Thai fishing trawlers had abruptly left an island in remote eastern Indonesia, where the Thai fishing industry held trafficked crew members captive, to escape a government crackdown on illegal fishing.

                      The AP, which was investigating slavery on fishing vessels, subsequently identified where the cargo ship had fled using satellite images from U.S.-based Digital Globe that became evidence in the Indonesian government's court case.

                      Pudjiastuti said the vessel's violations included intentionally turning off electronic systems that allowed the ship's location to be tracked by maritime authorities and other vessels. DNA testing was used to prove that the $1.5 million of fish on board was from Indonesian waters.

                      When identified in the Digital Globe satellite images, the Silver Sea 2 was in Papua New Guinea waters, receiving illegal Indonesian catch from two fishing trawlers in a process known as transshipment.

                      It was captured by an Indonesian navy vessel off the island of Sumatra after returning to Indonesian waters. The Thai captain was detained and a probe launched into suspected human trafficking, transporting illegal fish and off-loading the catch at sea.

                      The Pulitzer-prize winning AP investigation resulted in the freeing of more than 2,000 men from Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos, more than a dozen arrests, the changing of U.S. legislation, and lawsuits. However, the global seafood industry continues to be plagued by illegal fishing and labor abuses at sea.

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                      • Wednesday, December 13, 2017

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                        • Thai government to buy up 1,900 fishing trawlers
                          December 20, 2017

                          Panel overseeing sector agrees to compensate owners amid threats from fishermen and pressure from the EU to rein in illegal fishing and gross abuse of migrant fishermen on vessels

                          A fishing boat returns to Samut Sakhon port near Bangkok in this file shot from 2011. The Prayut government is looking to buy up about 1,900 vessels that have been idle since tougher regulations were imposed to eliminate illegal and unregulated fishing.
                          Photo: iStock Bangkok Post reported.

                          The administration was forced to rein in activities of the local fishing industry after threats of trade retaliation by the European Union in 2015.

                          Foreign and local labor activists plus human rights groups have long condemned the Thai fishing industry as a sector out of control, with a history of gross abuse of foreign crews and rampant overfishing, which is said to have greatly depleted local seas of fish.

                          EU pressure to act on illegal fishing
                          monitor both vesselsFishermen threatening to rallyaviation industry in regard to licensing and meeting international safety standards.

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                            • 'It was torture': Grim tales in Thai fishing sector despite reforms
                              Beh Lih Yi
                              Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change and resilience. Visit news.trust.org
                              January 23, 2018

                              KUALA LUMPUR(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Trafficked into work and routinely abused, migrant fishermen in Thailand are still subject to forced labor despite efforts by the government to clean up the industry, advocacy groups said on Tuesday.

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                              Migrant workers prepare to unload their catch at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, January 22, 2018.
                              Picture taken January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha2.jpg
                              Migrant workers sort fish and seafood unloaded from a fishing ship at a port in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, January 22, 2018. Picture taken January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
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