April 16, 2024 — The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has issued a report alleging China’s distant-water fishing fleet in the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO) is connected to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and human rights abuses.
The report, “Tide of Injustice,” investigated China’s fleet in the region and interviewed migrant fishers onboard. According to the EJF, every single fisher the nonprofit interviewed reported witnessing either human rights abuses, illegal fishing, or both.