Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 15, 2016. Recent in-depth investigations have exposed horrific and widespread human rights abuses in the global fishing industry. According to reporting by the Associated Press, The New York Times, and other major news outlets, much of the fish that winds up on U.S. tables is caught and transported using child labor, slave labor, and other forms of human trafficking. Although the United States and other major seafood importing countries have strict environmental and labor laws for their own domestic fisheries, they continue to import large quantities of seafood from jurisdictions plagued by poor environmental and labor practices.
