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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals

Back in 2011, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report on the threat overfishing poses to marine biodiversity.

The FAO acknowledged that this effects “the livelihood and food security of 200 million people”, along with the 1 in 5 people on the planet that depend on seafood “as [their] primary source of protein.”

However, long before the FAO pointed out the danger overfishing poses to the continuation of this food resource, the US passed the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation & Management Act in 1976, which was meant to protect biodiversity in marine populations.

By working with corporations in the fishing industry, for both commercial and recreational fishers, the US has prevented overfishing, rebuilt fish populations, and everyone is happy.

And thanks to emerging technology, fishing operations have expanded to nearly every body of water in just the past century alone.

Journalist D.L. Parsell explains that this poses a serious problem to fish species such as cod, tuna, haddock, flounder, and swordfish.

Parcell wrote these varieties of fish “could disappear from plates within a decade if these species continue to be fished at present levels … Some evidence suggests that severely overexploited species may not recover even decades after depletion, he said. In Canada, for example, northern cod were fished so intensively that today the population is only a small percentage of the once-abundant stocks.”

The Darthmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (DUJS) explained several years ago that it is the commercial fishing industry who is to blame for the extinction of certain types of fish, as well as the biggest threat to marine biodiversity to this day.

The DUJS wrote : “Today, however, small trawlers and fishing boats have been replaced by giant factory ships that can capture and process extremely large amounts of prey at a given time. These ships use sonar instruments and global positioning systems (GPS) to rapidly locate large schools of fish. Fishing lines are deployed with thousands of large hooks that can reach areas up to 120 kilometers deep. The trawling vessels and machines can even reach depths of 170 kilometers and can store an extraordinarily large volume of fish.”

The DUJS pointed out that “bottom trawling, a technique that uses extremely wide nets armed with heavy metal rollers, can crush everything in the path of the gear, destroying fragile corals, smashing rock formations, and killing several tons of fish and animals as bycatch.”

This method wreaks “havoc on delicate marine ecosystems”.

Another problem the fishing industry creates is the irreversible loss of fish species due to modern fishing methods.

But the negative impacts are not exclusive to the fish themselves. Corporations abuse the fishermen and women who help them gain exorbitant profits from our oceans.

Late last year Nestle admitted to making “false promises” to “impoverished migrant workers in Thailand” in order to coerce them into working as slaves for the Geneva-based food giant.

Boat owners and shrimp farm workers from Myanmar and Cambodia were interviewed, along with employees from various other countries, about the conditions of work and the treatment they received from Nestle supervisors and management staff.

In order to profit from the $7 billion annual worth of products sold through Nestle fishing enterprises, the company overlooked:

• Ages of workers
• Forcing child workers to fish
• Extended work shifts
• Not allowed to sleep
• Providing minimal food and water to employees
• Not allowing contact with the outside world
• Provided fake identities
• Hiring illegals

The gross human rights violations committed by fishing corporations is rampant and some countries have implemented laws to stop it completely.

In 2015, the Falkland Islands government considered a legal proposal called Work in Fishing Convention (WFC) that restricted licensing under new conditions:

• Fishing corporations, their crew and management must follow the WFC
• Food and water, plus accommodations must be provided to employees as outlined in the WFC
• Fisher’s Work Agreements (FWA) must meet WFC standards
• FWAs must include procedure and contractual terms for employees who want to quit

This bill would affect the totality of the Falkland fishing industry which works closely with the Taiwanese Squid Fishery Association (TSFA) and the Korea Overseas Fishery Association (KOFA). These nations are directly impacted by corporate enslavement of workers and this move would cause a financial rift in profit margins for larger food product entities.

Concerning the measures that could be taken against corporations who violate human rights laws, the University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs worked with the Swedish Board of Fisheries and WorldFish to publish a report highlighting the reality of “forced eviction, detention, child labor, forced labor, and gender-based violence” that is common place in developing nation’s fisheries.

A large part of the problem is that “there is no standardized database on human rights cases, nor any comparable prior published reviews in relation to fisheries, the information gathered is incomplete and often anecdotal in nature.”

And yet, what is known about this seedy industry reveals that:

• In Tanza and the Philippines, 1000 fishing and urban poor families houses were demolished and families relocated
• Child labor accounts for an excess of 30% of fish process workers in Thailand and other Asian countries
• 20% of migrant workers are forced
• Indian and Pakistani fishermen are detained in prisons without trials and live under deplorable conditions
• Sexual and domestic violence is rampant in fishing communities

But when it comes to passing the buck, it is the consumers and taxpayers who front the bill for this industry.

Around the world, taxpayers contribute an estimated $15 to 35 billion in subsidies that include:

• Direct transfer of funds
• Income/price support
• Tax credits
• Exemptions
• Rebates
• Regulatory support
• Funding fishery management
• Data collection
• Waiving of fees

Subsidies assist in the deregulation of fishing which has proven to encourage the overfishing of our oceans by corporations. While international organizations have agreed to strengthen restrictions on fishery subsidies, they do not have the bite necessary to put an end to the problems caused by industrial fishing.

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