{"id":1102,"date":"2015-07-27T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2015-07-27T11:15:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:15:15","slug":"sea-slaves-forced-labor-for-cheap-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SEA SLAVES\u2019: FORCED LABOR FOR CHEAP FISH"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Adam<\/a>
Adam Dean for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SONGKHLA, Thailand \u2014 Lang Long\u2019s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family\u2019s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker\u2019s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was his chance to start over. But when he arrived, Mr. Long was kept for days by armed men in a room near the port at Samut Prakan, more than a dozen miles southeast of Bangkok. He was then herded with six other migrants up a gangway onto a shoddy wooden ship. It was the start of three brutal years in captivity at sea.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI cried,\u201d said Mr. Long, 30, recounting how he was resold twice between fishing boats. After repeated escape attempts, one captain shackled him by the neck whenever other boats neared.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/a>
Adam Dean for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mr. Long\u2019s crews trawled primarily for forage fish, which are small and cheaply priced. Much of this catch comes from the waters off Thailand, where Mr. Long was held, and is sold to the United States, typically for canned cat and dog food or feed for poultry, pigs and farm-raised fish that Americans consume. (By\u00a0IAN URBINA<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Read the whole article on The New York Times.com:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/27\/world\/outlaw-ocean-thailand-fishing-sea-slaves-pets.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although Adam Dean had photographed for The New York Times in Southeast Asia\u00a0before<\/a>, he was excited to work with Ian Urbina on part of his investigative series, \u201cThe Outlaw Ocean<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/span> He saw it as an opportunity to dig into a story and spend some time trying to find out what was really going in the violent, unregulated world of fishing boats in international waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

The resulting article, \u201c\u200a\u2018Sea Slaves\u2019 Catch Dinner for America\u2019s Pets,<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/span> details the stories of fishermen who have fled forced labor. He spoke recently with the deputy picture editor Beth Flynn about his experiences on the project. Their conversation has been edited and condensed.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/27\/life-among-the-sea-slaves\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=linkedin&_r=0#<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SONGKHLA, Thailand \u2014 Lang Long\u2019s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family\u2019s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker\u2019s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job. It was his chance to start over. But … Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}