Verbal and physical abuse - and sometimes as much as a decade without being allowed to go ashore. In violation of UN sanctions, North Koreans endure forced labour and gross violations on board Chinese ships, according to a report.
Did the China Investigation Have Impact? The short answer is, in large measure, yes. But in some ways, no.
The size and behavior of the Chinese fishing fleet raises concerns. Seafood is the world’s last major source of wild protein and the largest globally traded food commodity by value. Western political analysts say that having just one country controlling this precious resource creates a precarious power imbalance.
The Chinese fishing fleet is a great power on the sea. It fishes far out to sea where no country's laws reach, and it fishes more than any other nation right now. And it does so at a terrible human cost.
China forces minorities from Xinjiang to work in industries around the country. As it turns out, this includes processing much of the seafood sent to America and Europe.
