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The True Cost of Canned Tuna Includes Marine Observer Abuse and Deaths | Civil Eats

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The harassment, abuse, and sometimes death of the marine observers who uphold sustainable seafood standards are the industry’s worst-kept secrets. Critics say the people and companies that earn the most money on tuna aren’t doing enough to secure their well-being. BY LEE VAN DER VOO MAY 23, 2023 Illustration credit: Tina Zellmer Related Articles The US Is a Dumping Ground for Illegal Seafood. Some Lawmakers Want to Clean Up the Market As a National Seafood Council Takes Shape, Whose Interests Will It Serve? A High-Tech Solution to Seafood Slavery and Illegal Fishing A San Diego Pier-to-Plate Seafood Market Is a Lifeline for Fishermen Op-ed: Walmart’s Outsized Catch Diving—and Dying—for Red Gold: The Human Cost of Honduran Lobster Simi Cagilaba could hear the fighting outside his cabin door. In the hallway of the 209-foot tuna seiner, drunken crewmen were roiling the ship yet again. It was late, and the vessel was bobbing on the currents of the South Pacific, the fighting typical of

The harassment, abuse, and sometimes death of the marine observers who uphold sustainable seafood standards are the industry’s worst-kept secrets. Critics say the people and companies that earn the most money on tuna aren’t doing enough to secure their well-being. BY LEE VAN DER VOO MAY 23, 2023 Illustration credit: Tina Zellmer Related Articles The US Is a Dumping Ground for Illegal Seafood. Some Lawmakers Want to Clean Up the Market As a National Seafood Council Takes Shape, Whose Interests Will It Serve? A High-Tech Solution to Seafood Slavery and Illegal Fishing A San Diego Pier-to-Plate S

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