Modern-day slavery: horrific conditions on board ships catching fish for Europe. When environmental campaigners began tracking a hi-tech South Korean trawler off the coast of West Africa, they were looking for proof of illegal fishing of dwindling African stocks.
What they uncovered was an altogether different kind of travesty: human degradation so extreme it echoed the slavery they thought had been abolished more than a century ago. "It was horrendous," said Duncan Copeland, a senior campaigner at the Environmental Justice Foundation, who boarded the South Korean-flagged trawler at the end of 2008 with naval forces from Sierra Leone. Nrc.nl - Binnenland - Verburg zegt natuuronderzoek toe aan visse. Nrc.nl - Binnenland - Boeren stoppen met beheer natuur door bure.