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Thursday 21 May 2020

Disappearances, danger and death: what is happening to fishery observers?

The people who monitor ships for illegal fishing and labour practices have been vanishing under suspicious circumstances

Liz Mitchell was on her laptop in her living room in Eugene, Oregon, when she got the news. Thousands of miles away, on a Taiwanese fishing boat, a fishery observer named Eritara Aati Kaierua had been found dead.

Details were scant. The ship’s name (Win Far No 636), the dead man’s passport number, and where the boat was now headed: the port of Kiribati, a central Pacific island nation on the equator.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2ziScoE

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