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logo 9/23/2024 10:18:03 AM     
How a Tiny Team of Journalists Held the World’s Biggest Fishing Fleet to Account 
By Ian Urbina CN Source: time 10/26/2023
Ian Urbina
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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