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Hundreds of laborers – mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma – have been brought to Indonesia and forced to work on fishing trawlers for little or no money, and are held captive between fishing trips, reports the Associated Press. Their seafood haul is shipped to Thailand and enters the global supply chain, and can end up in American grocery stores and with food distributors.
From the story: “In a year-long investigation, the AP talked to more than 40 current and former slaves in Benjina (Indonesia). The AP documented the journey of a single large shipment of slave-caught seafood from the Indonesian village, tracking it by satellite to a gritty Thai harbor…. AP journalists followed trucks that loaded and drove the seafood over four nights to dozens of factories, cold storage plants and the country's biggest fish market.”
Read and watch the story by the AP.
