Forced Uyghur labour behind China's seafood industry
China has transformed itself into the world’s seafood superpower. This pre-eminence has come at a grave human and environmental cost.
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China has transformed itself into the world’s seafood superpower. This pre-eminence has come at a grave human and environmental cost.
On a cloudy morning this past April, more than eighty men and women, dressed in matching red windbreakers, stood in orderly lines in front of the trai...
An investigation by The Outlaw Ocean Project found that at least 10 large seafood companies in China have used more than a thousand Uyghur labourers since 2018
Uyghurs and North Koreans are forced to process seafood destined for the United States, they say.
Chinese fishing vessels stay at sea for years at a time, forcing their crews to confront severe malnutrition. Americans who eat seafood are implicated too.