https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/
The North Koreans Behind Global Seafood. China uses thousands of workers from the Hermit Kingdom, in violation of U.N. sanctions and U.S. law. Many at the plants recounted rampant sexual abuse. Bait-to-Plate An interactive tool tracing seafood from ships and processing plants to downstream brands and consumers, including what is known about

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/findings/
Fueled by the world's growing and insatiable appetite for seafood, China has dramatically expanded its reach across the high seas. With as many as 6,500 ships, the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet is more than double the size of its closest global competitor. The size and behavior of the Chinese fishing fleet raises concerns.

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/methodology/
The Outlaw Ocean Project team then cross-referenced this information with data from other platforms. We checked vessel ownership information provided by Krakken using Equasis, a non-profit that provides information on a ship's ownership, management, and safety and inspection histories. The reporting team also used this information to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3xxvRRyiko
An exploration of the motivations and methods behind China's growth and control over fishing across most of the high seas.This video is part of a broader inv

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Screenshot from The Outlaw Ocean Project But China's preeminence on the water has come at a high human and environmental cost. Fishing is ranked as the deadliest job in the world and, by many measures, Chinese squid ships are among the most brutal. Debt bondage, human trafficking, violence, criminal neglect, preventable injuries, and death

https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/china-superpower-seafood
This project sought to examine these conditions and the resulting criminality—focusing especially on the Chinese fishing fleet and its activity in the region. China: The Superpower of Seafood. A four-year investigation by The Outlaw Ocean Project looks at human rights and environmental crimes on Chinese fishing ships and in Chinese processing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6-QhHtQXEs
China's seafood fishing fleet is more than double that of its next competitor. How did they become so big and should the world care? The Outlaw Ocean Project

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HARD AT WORK. Crew members hard at work on a Chinese squid ship. Screenshot from The Outlaw Ocean Project China has grown the size of its fleet predominantly through state subsidies, which by 2018 had reached $7 billion annually, making it the world's largest provider of fishing subsidies. The vast majority of that investment went toward

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/china-seafood-superpower-video
Video by The Outlaw Ocean Project. China, 2023. An exploration of the motivations and methods behind China's growth and control over fishing across most of the high seas. This video is part of a broader investigation published by The Outlaw Ocean Project in collaboration with The New Yorker.

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3242606/dark-side-chinas-rise-seafood-superpower-human-rights-abuses-and-death-high-seas
Photo: The Outlaw Ocean Project/Sihkami Denting On April 10, 2022, a year after Aritonang's death, his mother, Sihombing, sat on a leopard-print rug in her living room with Leonardo, another son.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigation-reveals-chinese-seafood-caught-and-processed-using-forced-labor-sold-in-u-s
An investigation by the not-for-profit journalism organization called The Outlaw Ocean Project has documented human rights, labor, and environmental concerns related to the Chinese fleet.

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/reach/
The Outlaw Ocean Project Exposes China's Use Of Forced Uyghur Labour To Supply UK Seafood Industry November 15, 2023; Die Zeit Germany German. In der Tinte November 8, 2023; Digiday United States English. Salesforce, TIME and Fortune Media are among this year's Digiday Media Awards winners May 15, 2024;

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The Outlaw Ocean Project further documented the presence of Uyghur labor in Chishan Group's processing plants by using social media, specifically the platform Douyin - the Chinese counterpart to TikTok. "We really wanted to verify in 2023 that there were still Uyghur workers at these factories, and in order

https://www.pbs.org/video/outlaw-ocean-1702422597/
IAN URBINA, Executive Editor, The Outlaw# Ocean Project: Foreign journalists are## generally forb had to rely on a range of publicly available# materials, including company newsletters,## local

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/bombshell-outlaw-ocean-report-finds-evidence-of-seafood-processed-by-forced-labor-in-us-supply-chain
The Outlaw Ocean Project named Walmart, Albertsons, Nomad Foods, Carrefour, Tesco, and Edeka as having received seafood tainted with Chinese forced labor. Albertsons said that it will cease its purchases of some seafood products from High Liner Foods in response to the report. Carrefour said it had commenced an investigation.

https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/project-power-globally-china-has-become-superpower-seafood/
To project power globally, China has become the superpower of seafood. Dec 22, 2023 8:46 PM PHT. Ian Urbina. INFO. A four-year investigation from The Outlaw Ocean Project shows that workers of a

https://www.cecc.gov/media-center/press-releases/forced-labor-in-china%E2%80%99s-seafood-industry-explored-at-hearing
Ian Urbina, the Director and Founder of The Outlaw Ocean Project, said in his testimony that his reporting focused on China because it "is the undisputed superpower of seafood because its distant water fishing fleet, which is to say those vessels in foreign or international waters, is vastly bigger than that of any other country. So too is

https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/china-the-superpower-of-seafood/the-uyghurs-forced-to-process-the-worlds-fish/
(Tencent Video/The Outlaw Ocean Project) An advertisement aimed at factory owners, posted on a Chinese online forum, promises that, when workers arrive, they will be kept under "semi-military-style management." Videos from seafood plants show that many workers from Xinjiang live in dormitories. Workers are reportedly often kept under the

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/newest-outlaw-ocean-report-reveals-evidence-seafood-processed-by-north-korean-labor-present-throughout-supply-chain
The Outlaw Ocean Project said it assembled a team of investigators to obtain evidence of North Korean workers - primarily women - being forced to work long hours for little pay in long-term contracts. Additionally, it conducted interviews with North Koreans, kept anonymous out of fear of persecution, who detailed the coercion they faced

https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/premium/supply-trade/outlaw-ocean-project-reveals-additional-information-on-uyghur-labor-as-some-implicated-companies-remain-silent
The Outlaw Ocean Project further documented the presence of Uyghur labor in Chishan Group's processing plants by using social media, specifically the platform Douyin - the Chinese counterpart to TikTok. "We really wanted to verify in 2023 that there were still Uyghur workers at these factories, and in order to do that we turned to social

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Seafood processed by Chinese companies using labor from North Korea has made its way into international seafood supply chains, according to a new Outlaw Ocean report published in The New Yorker magazine. The latest story builds on previous work by the Outlaw Ocean Project that discovered evidence of Uyghur labor in the supply chains of

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China: Seafood Superpower | The Outlaw Ocean Project. So, china and the rest of the world are just going to strip the ocean bare, huge portions of reefs are dying, algae blooms are everywhere... Agent Smith was right. Humans are a cancer. Would be awful if some countries formed their own transponder free pirate fleet and started sinking