Seafood brands profiting from worker abuse must be held to account

Without comprehensive and fully enforced measures to target seafood produced using abusive practices, Canada feeds this global problem.

Canada is a major importer of fish and seafood. Our government acknowledges some of the harms caused by illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing at home and abroad, but has yet to make laws to stop it, write Georgina Alonso and Bea Bruske.Photograph courtesy of llee_wu on Flickr

Opinion

BY GEORGINA ALONSO, BEA BRUSKE

August 9, 2023

For years, researchers have documented the often inhuman and degrading treatment of workers in the global fishing indu...

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