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Re:Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas by TrackerFF on Sunday September 15, 2019 @09:40AM (#20977148)
Up here in Norway they had discovered some absolutely horrid working conditions on some of the trawlers that fish for snow and king crabs. They'd import workers from eastern Europe and Asia (Indonesians etc.) - where the workers would deal with up to 18-hours shifts, to the point that they'd fall asleep on deck, while working.

When food ran out, they'd start eating bait. The pay was so low that they sometimes couldn't afford going back home...$400-$500 monthly salary in northern Europe.

https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/secret-slave-contracts/7055...

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Re:Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas by tgsovlerkhgsel on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:43PM (#20979386)
Why eat the bait instead of the catch? Surely on a ship full of literal tons of fish, the cost of feeding the crew some of it is completely negligible?
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