By Stew Post • Jan 12, 2021
While many of the industry's worst excesses have been cleaned up in recent years, bondage labour persists aboard Southeast Asia's fishing vessels. Following the reemergence of his film Buoyancy, director Rodd Rathjen talks about the conditions he witnessed in Thailand's infamous fisheries

By Rebekah Baynard-Smith • Dec 29, 2020
Over the course of this year, separate incidents of alleged forced labour, trafficking, disappearances and killings aboard Chinese fishing vessels around Southeast Asia have led to growing pressure to tackle the rampant human rights abuses being conducted at sea

By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata • May 11, 2016
Susi Pudjiastuti's tough stance on illegal fishing is doing wonders for her public profile but angering local fishermen and neighbouring countries

By Roni Bintang • Dec 19, 2014
After being destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, Banda Aceh’s Lampulo fish market was rebuilt and remains a hotbed of shark fin trading. Local fishermen trawl the seas, hauling in hundreds of thousands of the creatures each year to meet the demand for shark fin soup that flows out of China and Vietnam