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Crews are being subject to inhumane living conditions aboard European trawlers poaching the fishing grounds off the west coast of Africa, reports the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).
“Conditions…unquestionably meet the UN official definition of forced labour or modern-day slavery," EJF investigator Duncan Copeland was quoted in the UK publication The Guardian.
The investigation uncovered crews of up to 200 persons living in unsafe and unsanitary areas with ceilings less than one meter high, little access to clean drinking water and temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit without ventilation. Reports are rampant of withheld pay, violence, incarceration, confiscation of documents and confinement for months and years.
Many of the workers come from Senegal, Vietnam and China.
The trawlers are said to be fishing illegally in exclusion zones off of Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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