Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Modern slavery and the race to fish

  • David Tickler,
  • Jessica J. Meeuwig,
  • Katharine Bryant,
  • Fiona David,
  • John A. H. Forrest,
  • Elise Gordon,
  • Jacqueline Joudo Larsen,
  • Beverly Oh,
  • Daniel Pauly,
  • Ussif R. Sumaila,
  • Dirk Zeller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07118-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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There have been growing concerns about the exploitation of workers in the fisheries sectors. Here, Tickler et al. use a country-level metric of slavery to determine the risk of fisheries-level slavery across 20 countries, and find it rises as unreported catch increases and mean value of catch decreases.