How a Tiny Team of Journalists Held the World’s Biggest Fishing Fleet to Account

How a Tiny Team of Journalists Held the World’s Biggest Fishing Fleet to Account

By Ian Urbina

Source: time

10/26/2023

Credit: Fábio Nascimento for The Outlaw Ocean Project

On the high seas roughly a thousand miles north of the Falkland Islands, an 18-year-old deckhand working on a Chinese squid ship nervously ducked into a dark hallway to whisper his plea for help. “Our passports were taken,” he said to me. “They won’t give them back.”

Instead of speaking more, he then began typing on his cell phone, for fear of being overheard. “Can you take us to the embassy in Argentina?” Just then, my minder rounded the corner and the deckhand abruptly walked away. Minutes later, I was ushered off the ship.

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