By: Holly Pate and Charlotte Norsworthy, The Outlaw Ocean Project In April, a rickety, wooden boat carrying roughly 130 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, leaving no survivors. This tragic incident has become a grim, seasonal occurrence, with more than 350 similar deaths already this year.The worst is yet to come, as migration researchers predict […]
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From Capture to Culture: Aquaculture in the U.S.
By: Charlotte Norsworthy@The Outlaw Ocean Project As the Biden administration turns to environmental concerns, one of its top priorities will be how to better protect the world’s oceans. With more than 80 percent of the world’s fish stocks at or near collapse, some marine conservationists suggest that aquaculture might help counter the problem of overfishing.Now […]
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Conviction in Notorious Case of Mass Murder at Sea
By Ian Urbina, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reporting about environmental and human rights crimes at sea.” WASHINGTON — A District Court in Taiwan sentenced a fishing boat captain from China to […]
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South Pacific seafarer crisis exposes abandonment challenge
By: Holly Pate In the tiny Pacific island nation of Fiji, nearly a thousand men, mostly from Tonga, have been stranded for months, with no way to get home. In Kiribati, a hundred men are in the same bind. Similar situations are occurring in Egypt and Canada. Tens of thousands of seafarers are entering the […]