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> often run with slave labor Can that be an excuse to stop any industry? Might as well stop selling phones, books, shoes, clothes and... really any industry. I

• hedora 5y ago
  It’s a bigger issue with fishing than other industries. The slave boats stay in international waters indefinitely, and they hand the fish off to other boats to bring it into port. Some clothing is sewn in route in international waters, but I get the impression it’s less feasible to transfer the contents of container vessels in open water. Also, it’s harder to conceal the slave labor on those boats: You’d need to make the paperwork match on both sides of the journey if you left with a “skeleton crew” and a load of textiles, and arrived with products ready to sell. There’s no source port for the fish, so that problem becomes easier. You just need to conceal one way shipments of supplies into the ocean. Clothing manufacturing is also an abusive industry, but I get the impression that fishing wins out in terms of absolute number of literal slaves (not “slaves”, as you put it).