Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Fishing Industry
An interview with Vasco Becker-Weinberg
New Books in Economics · Marshall Poe
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Show Notes
Forced labor and human trafficking in fisheries, albeit present in most parts of the world, have gone unnoticed for many years. Fishers at sea are out of sight for a long time, living in difficult and often inhumane conditions.
But this problem does not affect just fishers: it is much more layered than we think and can impact most of our lives. How, exactly?
Prof. Vasco Becker-Weinberg from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and author of “Time to Get Serious about Combating Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Fisheries,” explains further, in the fourth episode of our new themed series In Chains.
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