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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News Id		Source	Stamp	country
4151	'Record-breaking' turbot caught off Shetland	BBC News	2012-09-28	UK
4152	Judge lets fish farm activist off the hook	ctvnews	2012-09-29	CA
4153	Preserving Old Female Cods Key To Population Conservation; 'Don't Seem To Have Aged Physiologically'	Underwatertimes	2012-09-26	SW
4154	Another giant sturgeon caught in Fraser River	CBC News	2012-09-26	CA
4155	Fisherman forced to throw back big tuna fish	CBC News	2012-09-20	CA
4156	Killing one fish species to preserve another	theglobeandmail	2012-09-20	CA
4157	Wallington man reels in 180lb albino fish	yourlocalguardian	2012-09-20	UK
4158	Alaska and the mysterious disappearing king salmon	BBC News	2012-09-19	US
4159	Montana announces fifth record-breaking fish in less than a year	foxnews	2021-04-01	US
4160	Overuse of antibiotics threatens China’s fish farms, scientists warn	scmp	2021-04-02	CN
4161	“Just incredible”: Bay of Green Bay evolves into world-class walleye fishery	wbay	2021-04-02	US
4162	Floating hotel where the bedroom is 10 feet beneath the surface of a Swedish lake	Daily Mail	2012-09-17	UK
4163	Warm temperatures bring bizarre tropical fish to Bay of Fundy	CTVNews	2012-09-13	CA
4164	One killed trying to fish using explosive	the hindu	2012-09-13	IN
4165	Hi-tech neon 'GloFish' could threaten natural species	gizmodo	2012-05-09	US
4166	Sonar replacing human fish counting in Yukon	CBC News	2012-08-31	CA
4167	First Nations in the Yukon fear poor Chinook salmon run sign of looming extinction	aptnnews	2020-09-19	CA
4168	Trout meet creek: These kids loved releasing brookies into Junction Creek	sudbury	2018-05-13	CA
4169	Urban fishing program comes to Clemmons Lake at Lynchburg’s Ivy Creek Park	newsadvance	2015-08-03	US
4170	‘Seaspiracy’ review: Fact and fiction meet fish in controversial Netflix documentary	the hindu	2021-04-03	IN
4171	Farmed fish suffer pain and stress, says report that criticises welfare failings	theguardian	2021-04-02	UK
4172	Canada declares fish fraud crackdown but leaves out restaurants	theguardian	2021-03-30	CA
4173	Scientists discover ‘penis-headed’ fish in Vietnam	RT	2012-08-29	VN
4174	Rare, elusive marine fish observed	upi	2012-08-28	CA
4175	Man wants answers after pond is drained, fish die	The Tribune-Democrat	2012-08-26	US

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