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Violence, Insults, Forced Labour: on Board Chinese Boats, the Hell of Squid Fishing

Summary by La Libre
An investigation reveals the abuses inflicted on the crews of Chinese vessels fishing the squid in the South Pacific. Dominic Thomson, deputy director of the Environmental Justice Foundation, talks about forced labour, even slavery. ...

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An investigation reveals the abuses inflicted on the crews of Chinese vessels fishing the squid in the South Pacific. Dominic Thomson, deputy director of the Environmental Justice Foundation, talks about forced labour, even slavery. ...

·Brussels, Belgium
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On the fleet of 60 ships employed between 2020 and 2025 work 81 Indonesians and Filipinos. Some of them anonymously report inhumane working conditions, massacred shifts, violence and abuse. At least 41 crew members boarded on Chinese ships would have been landed lifeless between 2013 and 2023. The European Union is the largest importer of squid worldwide, attesting itself a 31%. Investigation of the Environmental Justice Foundation

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La Libre broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday, February 26, 2026.
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