EU Lawmakers, Fishers and Rights Groups Confront 'Social Dimension' of Tuna Fishing
The European Parliament hosted a conference this week examining labor conditions aboard fishing vessels, with organizers arguing that sustainability in the seafood industry can't be measured by ocean health alone.
The event, "Advancing the Social Dimension of Sustainable Fisheries," was held Wednesday in Brussels and convened fishers, labor unions, academics and human rights experts to discuss the gap between working conditions on European-flagged vessels and those in distant-water fleets supplying the EU market, according to a press release...
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