Although this isn’t new news, it is good to see a way for consumers to try to do something about it by learning whether the fish you buy is caught under humane conditions for the fisher-people. Boys are vulnerable to these jobs.
I was in Thailand and didn’t see this directly (but know that trafficking is a huge issue in Thailand, including for prostitution) but I saw what might be the same situation in Vietnam — tiny islands big enough for one shack, which is the fishing platform. And I saw how these boys could not escape (unless some activist speedboat came along and grabbed them quickly). If they tried to swim somewhere, there was no place to go. They were surrounded by large islands of steep limestone cliffs with no inhabitants.
I wonder whether these fishing islands are chosen specifically for this kind of natural imprisonment.
URL here: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/01/582214032/was-your-seafood-caught-with-slave-labor-new-database-helps-retailers-combat-abu