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RSS FeedsHow Canadian consumers are eating seafood caught by modern-day slaves
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

8 november 2018 02:20:45

 
How Canadian consumers are eating seafood caught by modern-day slaves
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


VANCOUVER—There’s a hidden cost to buying seafood in Canada, experts say: widespread labour abuses and modern slavery on the high seas. And Canada is lagging behind other developed countries in suppressing the process, which occurs in several other industries such as textiles and timber, they argue.Meanwhile, these labour abuses function as undercover subsidies that allow distant-water fishing fleets to overfish, despite the fact that it should normally be unprofitable, according to research published Wednesday from the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia and University of Western Australia.“These companies can make a profit only if they get subsidies and if they don’t pay for their crews,” explained Daniel Pauly, principal investigator at Sea Around Us. “And the fish will end up in Canada.”That’s because transshipment is a common practice, wherein multiple fishing vessels are combined at sea before landing at port to sell to wholesalers.Seafood caught under conditions of modern slavery — defined as any exploitation that a person cannot avoid, refuse or leave because of threats, violence, abuse or deception — is “laundered” by mixing it with other fish before it enters the supply chain, Pauly said in a phone interview.Read more:Time to end modern slavery in supply chains‘Laxative of the sea’ being passed off as premium fish in Canada: new reportOttawa looks the other way at seafood fraudThen, the fish is exported internationally.According to the 2018 Global Slavery Index, Canada ranked the sixth highest globally for annual imports of $15 billion (U.S.) worth of goods at-risk of being produced through modern slavery. It found that 24.9 million people are working in conditions of modern slavery.But abhorrent working conditions in the seafood sector is not new. A 2015 Associated Press investigation found instances of workers on Indonesian islands being mar ...


 
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