From Nightmare at Sea to Advocacy: Fishers Speak Out on Labor Rights Abuses, Illegal Fishing

Imagine working 22 hours a day on board a distant-water fishing vessel. It’s grueling work; lifting heavy nets in and out of the water, wrangling whatever is caught from the depths of the ocean — it could be fish, sharks, or whales, but you were given no training or supplies. Your passport and ID documents were confiscated, and you are denied clean water to drink and bathe. You do not have access…