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| Title : | ‘Sea Slaves’: The Human Misery That Feeds Pets and Livestock |
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| Source : | Science Daily |
| Year : | 2018 |
| Link : | https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/27/world/outlaw-ocean-thailand-fishing-sea-slaves-pets.html |
| Country : | Thailand |
| Commodity: | SE SeaFood-All |
| Abstract: | The boat’s Thai crew master, Tang, a man with pockmarked skin and missing front teeth, ordered the boys back to work. He then ticked off a list of the pressures on deep-sea captains. Fuel costs eat up about 60 percent of a vessel’s earnings, double what they did two decades ago. Once fish are caught, storing them in melting ice is a race against the clock. As fish thaw, their protein content falls, dropping their sale price. |