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Violent abuse of migrant workers and flagrant illegal fishing are systemic problems across Taiwan’s distant water fishing fleet, a survey conducted by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) of crew from 62 vessels has found.

This briefing provides background on the Korean deep water fishing fleet and sets out structural issues with its management, concluding with detailed recommendations to the Korean government.

Three new trawlers have arrived in Ghana from China and have been registered to the Ghanaian flag, despite a moratorium on new fishing vessels. The government’s own Fisheries Management Plan states that 48 trawlers are the most that the fishery can sustain, yet 76 trawlers were licensed at the end of 2019. Ghana’s National Canoe Fishermen Council has written an open letter to the Fisheries Commission opposing any decision to grant these vessels licences to fish in Ghana’s waters.