Global industrial fishing has become reliant on low paid migrant workers, most of whom are from Southeast Asia. We are a collective of university faculty, graduate students, and non-academic collaborators who share the following research goals:
- to understand how and why migrant workers from Southeast Asia end up working on fishing vessels around the world;
-to document working conditions on industrial fishing vessels, especially those issues that are of most concern to the workers
-to understand and explain why working conditions are often unacceptable by any terrestrial standards
- to identify key strategies and actions where have led to improvements for migrant workers in fishing.
This program of research is being carried out in collaboration with the Just Seafood project led by Dr. Alin Kadfak (Swedish University of Agricultural Science). We also collaborate with unions especially the International Transport Workers’ Federation, NGOs, and and port-based Seafarer Missions including the Stella Maris network.
Check out Making Fishwork Visible, episode 1 in the Fishy Work podcast and featuring Work at Sea's Peter Vandergeest and Melissa Marschke
For more details about the project please see the About Us page.
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