Category: Biology

How do we take into consideration the economic disparity between the workers vs the person or business that affects the environment?

Thesis: Looking into the study of human trafficking as well as focus awareness of slavery practices in the fishing industry in workplaces like fishing vessels and seafood processing factories

I. Human Trafficking, Illegal fishing, and the seafood industry

A. How is the fisheries sector affected by forced labor?

B. Why are fishers vulnerable to forced labor and human trafficking?

C. ILO Response- GAPfish (Global Action Programme against forced labor and trafficking of fishers at sea
D. GSI estimates and fisheries governance are correlated at the national level among the major fishing countries.
E. Thesis

II. Domestic law enforcement and overseas trafficking

A. Fishers are forced to work for long hours at very low pay, and the work is intense, hazardous, and difficult.
B. higher levels of subsidized distant-water fishing and poor catch reporting
C. reducing expenditure on crew pay, safety, and living conditions
D. non-compliance with labor and safety standards or by withholding pay
III. International diplomacy and assistance
A. Policy Recommendations
B. Foreign assistance with implications for seafood slavery.
C. What can be done to help stop this issue?
D. debt bondage in the deep-sea fishing industry
IV. The link between forced labor and other fisheries crime
A. reduce risk in these labor markets
B. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing presents a grave threat to the world’s fish stocks
C. Up to 26 percent of 16,000 industrial fishing vessels were likely to use forced labor,
D. AIS into research that can have an impact on how responsibly the fishing industry operates
V. Conclusion
A. Summary of all paragraphs
B. Evidence supporting thesis
C. Results and thesis significance
D. Future research and remaining questions