Project Publications

Vandergeest, Peter, and Melissa Marschke. 2024. Key Indicators and Standards for Work in Industrial Fishing. Work at Sea Policy Brief, April.

MacDonnell, Mallory, and Peter Vandergeest. 2024. "Fisher experience on distant water fishing vessels: the implications of variation by vessel type for employment standards." Maritime Studies 23:24

Kelly, Philip F., and Ria Jhoanna Ducusin. 2024. "Social reproduction, migration and labour control regimes: understanding Filipino crew experiences in the UK fishing fleet." Work in the Global Economy, 1–19.

Vandergeest, Peter, Carli Melo, and Melissa Marschke. 2024. "Canada lags behind on efforts to address human rights abuses in seafood supply chains." The Conversation, January 24, 2024.

Work at Sea team members contributed to Alin Kadfak's January 2024 Geopolitics article on "Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry."

New publication in Global Social Challenges Journal by M. Marschke and P. Vandergeest—Migrant Workers in Irish Fisheries: Exploring the Contradictions through the Lens of Racial Capitalism.

New publication in the Daily Maverick co-authored by M. Marschke—The Lawless Oceans — forced labour on rust-bucket boats docking at Cape Town harbour

Alonso, G., Marschke, M. Blue boats in deep waters: how aspects of IUU policy impact Vietnamese fish workers. Maritime Studies 22, 14 (2023).

Marschke, M., Vandergeest, P., Swerdfager, T., 2022. Human Rights, Forced Labour and Sustainability in Global Fisheries: A Potential Canadian Contribution to Enhancing Decent Work in Fishing. Report commissioned by Oceana Canada.

Vandergeest, P., Marschke, M. and MacDonnell, M., 2021. Seafarers in Fishing: A year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Marine Policy, p.104796.
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Vandergeest, P. and Marschke, M., 2021. Beyond slavery scandals: Explaining working conditions among fish workers in Taiwan and Thailand. Marine Policy, 132, p.104685.

Havice, E., M. Marschke, and P. Vandergeest. 2020. Industrial seafood systems in the immobilizing COVID-19 moment. Agriculture and Human Values 37: 655–56 (Rapid Response).

Marschke, M., Vandergeest, p., Havice, E., Kadfak, A., Duker, P., Isopescu, I. and MacDonnell, M. 2020. COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in AsiaMaritime Studies (15 pages). Published online on 23 November 2020.

Vandergeest, P. and M. Marschke. 2020. Oceans as a working space: Commentary 5 to the Manifesto for the marine social sciencesMaritime Studies 19(2): 135–36.