BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s fishing and seafood industry has made some improvement in working conditions, including less physical violence, but problems such as unfair pay and deception in contracting ...

Thai prisoners are being forced to make fishing nets for private companies under threat of punishment including beatings and delayed release, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.

Thailand’s new government is promising to “unlock” fisheries by reducing regulation and transparency around vessels’ activities. A letter signed by 90 NGOs questions the National Fishing Association’s ...

The six men lay in red body bags, lined up on a concrete dock. The first died almost three weeks before his ship reached Thailand; the last almost made it alive but died the day before the ship docked ...

By Carolyn Cowan The secretary-general of a Thai agricultural watchdog is facing a lawsuit that observers say is part of ...

When Below Deck bosun Ashton Pienaar tried to take a group of charter guests fishing in Thailand, he returned empty-handed. While he agreed to allow professional fishing expert deckhand Rhylee Gerber ...

(Bangkok) – The Thai government has failed to address widespread labor rights abuses in Thailand’s fishing fleets, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to senior European Union officials. Human ...

Forced labor, human trafficking and other rights abuses are "widespread" in the Thai fishing industry, according to a new Human Rights Watch report that provides an update on a sector that has been ...

Reforms to address modern-day slavery in Thailand’s fishing fleets haven’t stamped out coercive labor practices in the industry, a leading human rights group says. The report, “Hidden Chains: Forced ...

After two years toiling without pay on a Thai fishing boat, Sai Ko Ko fell ill. “[The captain] verbally abused me but I was so sick I couldn’t work,” recalls the 21-year-old. “He knocked me down, ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A survey of working conditions in Thailand’s fishing and seafood industry conducted by the U.N.’s International Labor Organization has found that new regulations resulted in progress in ...

Forced labor, human trafficking and other rights abuses are "widespread" in the Thai fishing industry, according to a new Human Rights Watch report that provides an update on a sector that has been ...