Catch : How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries.

Overfishing.

Seismic prospecting.

Local Subjects:

Fisheries.

Overfishing.

Seismic prospecting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Catch

Place of Publication:

: Awa Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In November 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, a Korean ship came upon a Taiwanese fishing boat. The Tai Ching 21 was eerily silent. The lifeboat and three rafts were missing, and so were all 29 Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian, and Filipino crew who had been aboard. A quest to discover the identities of the lost men led New Zealand journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing in the ocean as far south as Antarctica. In The Catch he reveals what he discovered: horrifying examples of modern slavery in which men from poor countries are trapped on

Contents:

""Dedication""; ""Preface""; ""1 Dangerous seas""; ""2 Frozen to death""; ""3 Crime""; ""4 Oyang""; ""5 Southern blue whiting""; ""6 Cover-up""; ""7 Slavery""; ""8 Verdict""; ""9 Tangaroa's bounty""; ""10 Pirate ship""; ""11 The politics of fishing""; ""12 Aboard a Soviet trawler""; ""13 Inquiry""; ""14 Melilla""; ""15 Sanford""; ""16 The Southern Ocean""; ""17 The Pacific Prize""; ""18 The China syndrome""; ""19 The Russians are coming""; ""20 Wars""; ""21 Hope""; ""Epilogue""; ""Author's note""; ""Acknowledgements""; """"; ""Abbreviations""; """"; ""Common and scientific names""

""Endnotes""""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781927249031

1927249031

OCLC:

908512993