https://www.scmp.com/rss/507933/feed Ian Urbina, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on reporting about environmental, labor and human rights crimes at sea. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the early morning of March 8, 2021, a small inflatable boat powered by an outboard motor covertly made its way into Uruguay’s biggest port to unload a dying deckhand, and then sped away. The man, a slight 20-year-old Indonesian named Daniel Aritonang, had been at sea for a year and a half, working on a Chinese squid-fishing ship called the Zhen Fa 7. Now he was dumped dockside, barely conscious, with two black eyes, bruises along the sides of his torso, bloated hands and feet, and rope marks... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3242606/dark-side-chinas-rise-seafood-superpower-human-rights-abuses-and-death-high-seas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3242606/dark-side-chinas-rise-seafood-superpower-human-rights-abuses-and-death-high-seas?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:15:08 +0000 The men are helpless out in the open water, without life jackets, clinging to floating debris from their rammed and sunken ship, being tossed around by rolling ocean waves. Several large fishing vessels circle, but none make a move to help. This isn’t a rescue. The viewfinder’s frame shakes and a voice, off camera, shouts in Mandarin: “In the front, to the left! What are you doing?” Then: “Fire! Fire! Fire!” Bullets spray the water around one flailing man. One round catches him. His body stills,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3125028/murder-sea-maritime-crime-doesnt-begin-and-end?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3125028/murder-sea-maritime-crime-doesnt-begin-and-end?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:15:12 +0000 More than 160km from shore, near the coast of West Africa, I accompanied marine police officers from Gambia as they “arrested” 15 foreign ships for labour violations and illegal fishing over the course of a week in 2019. All but one of the vessels were from China. At the beginning of that same year, during a month-long voyage on a toothfish longliner headed into Antarctic waters from Punta Arenas, Chile, the only other ships we passed were a dozen rusty Chinese purse seiners that looked barely... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3110537/how-chinas-vast-and-aggressive-fishing-fleet?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3110537/how-chinas-vast-and-aggressive-fishing-fleet?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Nov 2020 01:15:16 +0000