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December 21, 2020 08:38 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/22193774/high-seas-fishing-vessels-ais-slave-labor
Slavery and overfishing on the high seas cant hide from these researchers
A tracking system designed to help ships avoid crashing into each other has become an important tool for spotting bad behavior on the high seas. Researchers can now put a spotlight on corporations that dominate fishing in unregulated international waters where it’s easier to get away with overfishing. And it’s giving us a better idea of how widespread slave labor could be on fishing vessels.
Two recently published papers use this technology, the maritime Automatic Identification System (AIS), to make high-seas fishing a little less mysterious. The first study, published in the journal One Earth on December 18th, traces the origins of thousands of high-seas...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/22193774/high-seas-fishing-vessels-ais-slave-labor
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