# Slavery at Sea

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821>\
**Category:** Commercial Fishing\
**Created:** [December 27, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821 "2020-12-27T10:33:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821/1 "2020-12-27T10:33:46Z")

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Hightech method to monitor “Slavery at Sea”:

> **[Satellites can reveal risk of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet -...](https://globalfishingwatch.org/press-release/forced_labor_risk_fishing/)**
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> Groundbreaking model uses remote sensing data, machine learning, and human rights expertise to shed light on slavery at sea 
> Washington, D.C. - Vessels known to have crew that are subject to forced labor behave in systematically different ways...

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**Author:** ![spork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@spork](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/spork)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821/2 "2020-12-27T20:02:25Z")

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wow, a lot of effort went into that study, it is amazing what you can do with modern technology. I wonder if dodgy fishing vessel operators might be getting worried that they can be detected.

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**Author:** ![Anonnymouus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/anonnymouus/32/69293_2.png) [@Anonnymouus](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Anonnymouus)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821/3 "2020-12-28T03:26:00Z")

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As long as the politicians enable them, the fishing vessel operators will continue, I assume.

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**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821/4 "2020-12-28T16:57:23Z")

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Where I live back in the day Skipjack captains would sometimes kidnap their crews in the fall. They knew they couldn’t put into port and keep the crew, so buy boats came out to buy oysters and sell them supplies. The crew hoped at least they would get paid off in the spring, some of the worst captains would line the crew up to give them their pay and then gybe, the long low boom would come across and knock the crew off the boat. This was called “paying off with the boom” 😨  
Sad to see this STILL goes on.

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**Author:** ![Slick\_cam1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/slick_cam1/32/817_2.png) [@Slick\_cam1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Slick_cam1)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/slavery-at-sea/57821/5 "2020-12-28T20:38:42Z")

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Ahhhhhh, the old “paying off with the boom” faux-sea story, as told by every blow boater from Suqehanna flats to Cape Henry. ⛵ It always gets old.