BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s fishing and seafood industry has made some improvement in working conditions, including less physical violence, but problems such as unfair pay and deception in contracting ...

When Below Deck bosun Ashton Pienaar tried to take a group of charter guests fishing in Thailand, he returned empty-handed. While he agreed to allow professional fishing expert deckhand Rhylee Gerber ...

Thailand’s new government is promising to “unlock” fisheries by reducing regulation and transparency around vessels’ activities. A letter signed by 90 NGOs questions the National Fishing Association’s ...

SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s navy on Friday showed off new technology to monitor fishing boats in a renewed effort to crack down on illegal fishing, forced labor and corruption in the ...

Thailand supplies a large portion of America's seafood. But Thailand's giant fishing fleet is chronically short of up to 60,000 fishermen per year, leaving captains scrambling to find crew. Human ...

Fishing workers, through the very nature of their work, are especially vulnerable to human trafficking as well as forced, bonded and slave labour, operating as they do in isolated and hazardous ...

(Bangkok) – The Thai government has failed to address widespread labor rights abuses in Thailand’s fishing fleets, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to senior European Union officials. Human ...

Despite international pressure, human rights abuses in Thailand’s fishing industry persist on ships active in remote, unpoliced waters, a new Greenpeace report claims. In a year-long investigation ...

After two years toiling without pay on a Thai fishing boat, Sai Ko Ko fell ill. “[The captain] verbally abused me but I was so sick I couldn’t work,” recalls the 21-year-old. “He knocked me down, ...

Forced labor, human trafficking and other rights abuses are "widespread" in the Thai fishing industry, according to a new Human Rights Watch report that provides an update on a sector that has been ...

After night fell on April 10, 2018 an unremarkable vessel quietly slipped its moorings in the Thai port of Samui and set to sea. The fishing resupply vessel was sailing out into the Gulf of Thailand, ...

Thailand supplies a large portion of America's seafood. But Thailand's giant fishing fleet is chronically short of up to 60,000 fishermen per year, leaving captains scrambling to find crew. Human ...