The initiative is aimed at reducing the isolation faced by crews on extended voyages by giving them reliable access to family communication and grievance-reporting channels ...

Thai lawmakers are discussing fisheries reforms that observers say risk undoing eight years of hard-won progress on human rights and ocean protection. Many of the proposed changes would amend reforms ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand protested an incident involving Myanmar's navy firing on Thai fishing vessels, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Sunday, after one fisherman drowned, two were ...

A report from the International Labor Organization details "deceptive and coercive" labor practices — and even forced labor within the industry.... If you eat fish on a regular basis, chances are some ...

Phnom Penh denounced the capture of the vessel and its crew as “an unauthorized incursion” into Cambodian territorial waters.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that forced labor on Thai fishing vessels has continued in the past year despite legal reforms and arrests following an Associated Press ...

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, file photo, Thai navy officers check the crew of a fishing boat in the waters off the coast of Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Thai fishing boats blocked from Indonesian ...

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which revealed long lines of coral bleaching inside a protected area (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) VOLUNTEER DIVER, CHANCHOT PIRIYASATIT, SAYING: "The fishing net that was over the coral reef created complex ...

Fishing workers, through the very nature of their work, are especially vulnerable to human trafficking as well as forced, bonded and slave labour, operating as they do in isolated and hazardous ...

Royal Thai Navy Region 1 on 22 February 2026 intercepted a Cambodian fishing vessel in Thai territorial waters off Khlong Yai district, authorities said. The arrest was reported at 10:00 by the ...