They just had on CNN news that a lot of fishing boats in the south are like slave ships.Had interveiwed with 2 or 3 guys who escaped,they said they would have to work,know pay.If they became ill,or could not work,they were (Crewmembers) where killed and put overboard.Then they had a Thailand Guy in charge of the fishing industry on and he said he was not aware of the problem,and then he said that the fishing boat captain could be fined and have there boats taken away.Go figure

The government guy was lying of course. there isn't a single Thai person that doesn't know this goes on. Mostly with Cambodian and Burmese crew.

global rather than limited to southern Thai fisheries

read this article from New Zealand dated 3 April 2011

Slavery at sea exposed

here's a small edit from that article

Working conditions came into focus after last August's sinking of the 38-year-old Oyang 70, costing six lives, and four months later when the 31-year-old No.1 Insung, operating out of Bluff, sank in the Ross Sea with the loss of 22 lives.

Sources say the families of the crew lost on Oyang were mostly robbed of their insurance money by agents in Indonesia, while the Vietnamese on Insung earned as little as $238 a month, with deductions for agents, food and cigarettes from that.

A Talley's boat, Amaltal Atlantis, rescued the Oyang survivors 650km east of Dunedin. Nearby foreign charter vessels ignored distress calls.

"They wouldn't knock off fishing," Talley said. "We were the only ones who put man-overboard rafts into the sea. We picked up 41 of them. It is a crime, you are supposed to go to the aid of anyone in distress, but these guys are outside the law."

The foreign boats were old and none of their rescue boats were operational. "Life means nothing to them."

global rather than limited to southern Thai fisheries

read this article from New Zealand dated 3 April 2011

Slavery at sea exposed

here's a small edit from that article

Working conditions came into focus after last August's sinking of the 38-year-old Oyang 70, costing six lives, and four months later when the 31-year-old No.1 Insung, operating out of Bluff, sank in the Ross Sea with the loss of 22 lives.

Sources say the families of the crew lost on Oyang were mostly robbed of their insurance money by agents in Indonesia, while the Vietnamese on Insung earned as little as $238 a month, with deductions for agents, food and cigarettes from that.

A Talley's boat, Amaltal Atlantis, rescued the Oyang survivors 650km east of Dunedin. Nearby foreign charter vessels ignored distress calls.

"They wouldn't knock off fishing," Talley said. "We were the only ones who put man-overboard rafts into the sea. We picked up 41 of them. It is a crime, you are supposed to go to the aid of anyone in distress, but these guys are outside the law."

The foreign boats were old and none of their rescue boats were operational. "Life means nothing to them."

Spend a couple of days in a Thai fishing port.

Start with Prachuap Khiri Khan and go south.

It's not difficult.

See who lives how.

Sorry, canuckamuck posted this earlier:

He was first, so lets continue the discussion on that thread. Sorry, cannot merge the threads.

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