The last untamed frontier
Ian Urbina
Director & Founder of The Outlaw Ocean Project | Award-Winning Investigative Journalist | International Correspondent | Bestselling Author | Fulbright Scholar | Lecturer | Entrepreneur
In the past several months, The Outlaw Ocean Project writers have been busy at work covering topics ranging from fishmeal and seafarer abandonment to an at-sea pianist and shady shell companies.
You can now listen to each of those stories, as told by the writers, via our newest episodes of The Last Untamed Frontier below and directly on?Spotify.
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Corporate corruption in global fishing gets new attention
By: Charlotte Norsworthy
The international fishing industry is ripe with corruption bred by corporate anonymity.
South Pacific seafarer crisis exposes abandonment challenge
By: Holly Pate
Seafarer abandonment is an ongoing issue, further inflamed by the current pandemic.?
From capture to culture
By: Charlotte Norsworthy
With more than 80 percent of the world’s fishstocks at or near collapse, some marine conservationists suggest that aquaculture might help counter the problem of overfishing.?
Search-and-rescue operations forced to manage migrant crisis
By: Holly Pate
In April, a rickety, wooden boat carrying roughly 130 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, leaving no survivors. This tragic incident has become a grim, seasonal occurrence, with more than 350 similar deaths already this year.
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Purgatory’s pianist
By: Marta Montojo
Sometimes beauty hides in dark corners. For Francesco Taskayali that beauty was to be found on detention ships anchored in the Mediterranean Sea, miles off the coast of Italy where desperate migrants are being held in a grim and watery purgatory.
El juglar de los migrantes
By: Marta Montojo
A veces la belleza se esconde en rincones oscuros. Para Francesco Taskayali, esa belleza se encuentra en los barcos de detención anclados en el Mediterráneo, a kilómetros de la costa de Italia, donde inmigrantes desesperados son retenidos en un lúgubre purgatorio acuático.
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Other Ocean Reads
For: Voice of America
By: Vijitra Duangdee
Migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar are being asked to sign contracts they cannot read in order to work in Thailand’s fishing fleet, a new study has found, undercutting efforts to expunge abuses from a sector worth billions of dollars to the Southeast Asian country.
For: The Wall Street Journal
By: Costas Paris
Hopes among cargo owners for relief from record ocean-freight rates are fading fast as growing demand for China-made goods ahead the holiday shopping season threatens to overwhelm container-shipping operations.?
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