Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A new paper has been published this week detailing the human rights abuses of workers on board Taiwanese coastal and deep water fishing industry vessels. The 20-page Human ...

A year-long Greenpeace investigation found that Taiwan’s tuna fishing industry is “out of control” – citing evidence for persistent shark finning, illegal tuna fishing, and forced labor ...

The Dirty Secret of Taiwan’s Fishing Industry By James X. Morris Taiwan’s systemic inertia has created the perfect environment for the continued exploitation of migrant fishermen.

Earlier this year it recommended Taiwan be downgraded in Washington’s annual human trafficking report, citing wage deductions, forced labor, murder and the disappearance at sea of migrant fishers.

Taipei (AFP) - Environment advocacy group Greenpeace on Thursday (April 14) said Taiwan's fishing industry was "out of control", with shark finning still rampant as well as labour and human rights ...

Forced labor and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing continue to be pervasive in Taiwan's distant water fishing industry, Greenpeace said in a report released on Monday. From 2019 to this year ...

Recent human trafficking cases have exposed the exploitation of migrants workers in Taiwan's billion-dollar fishing industry, reports the BBC's Cindy Sui in Taipei.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) —As Taiwan’s fishing industry is facing a labor shortage due to COVID-19 restrictions that have scaled down the entry of migrant workers, operators of set-net fishing grounds in ...

As China sends warships and fighter jets to the Taiwan Strait after a U.S. visit by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, deemed a separatist by Beijing, fishing crews plying the narrow waterway say they ...

For the third time since 2020, Taiwan’s fishing industry has been included on the annual “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor“ released by the U.S. government.

Since launching my show, “The Happy Fisherman,” in 2022 with TaiwanPlus, I have had a lot of opportunity to learn about the Taiwanese fishing industry.