Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers.

Workers’ rights groups on July 17 called on the Ministry of Labor to protect migrant fishers, days after a CNN reported what it described as a “pattern of abuse” in Taiwan’s distant-water fishing ...

One day after nine people were indicted for allegedly abusing foreign crew members on one of its fishing vessels, Taiwan has pledged more than TW$2 billion (US$68.5 million) to improve conditions ...

The Seafood Working Group, a coalition of NGOs that monitors abuses within global fishing fleets, estimates some 23,000 people work on Taiwan’s deep water vessels.

TAIPEI • Taiwan's lucrative fishing industry has come under fire for subjecting its migrant workforce to forced labour and other abuses, contrasting with the government's promotion of the island ...

Bukharin is the author of an August 2020 report about forced labor in the fishing industry. “It really ends up being the discretion of the vessel owner how to treat them, how to pay them,” she ...

Taiwan’s government has long resisted calls to address systemic labor abuse on its fishing boats, but it is now facing pressure from within.

The Distant Water Fisheries Act, which takes effect Jan. 15, 2017, comes amid growing pressure on Taiwan’s seafood industry to crack down on modern-day slavery and other abuses for the more than ...

The Seafood Working Group, a coalition of NGOs that monitors abuses within global fishing fleets, estimates some 23,000 people work on Taiwan's deep water vessels.

TAIPEI — Taiwan's lucrative fishing industry has come under fire for subjecting its migrant workforce to forced labor and other abuses, contrasting with the government's promotion of ...