Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery And PlunderThe, The by Michael Field
In November 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, a Korean ship came upon a Taiwanese fishing boat. The Tai Ching 21 was eerily silent. The lifeboat and three rafts were missing, and so were all 29 Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino crew who had been aboard. A quest to discover the identities of the lost men led New Zealand journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing in the ocean as far south as Antarctica. In The Catch he reveals what he discovered: horrifying examples of modern slavery in which men from poor countries are trapped on filthy, unsafe ships, treated brutally by captains and officers, and receive little or no pay. The fishing companies Field lays bare are ruthless. Their irresponsible and often illegal fishing practices are stripping the world's seas and threatening the food supply of people everywhere, propelling us towards one of the environmental tragedies of our times. These stories play out on the waters of New Zealand and the Pacific, but the same practices are happening all over the world. Can we ignore the fates both of these men and the catch they fish for?For 42 years, Michael Field has worked as a newspaper and agency correspondent, primarily covering the South Pacific. He is now a reporter for Fairfax Media and a Pacific affairs commentator on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon program. He was previously a correspondent for Agence France-Presse. Black Saturday: Killings in Samoa, Speight of Violence: Inside Fiji's 2000 Coup, and Swimming with Sharks: Stories from the South Pacific Frontline are some of his works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781927249024 |
| Title | Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery And PlunderThe, The |
| Author | Michael Field |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Awa Press |
| Year published | 2014-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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