{"id":669,"date":"2016-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/press\/669\/turn-the-tide\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T07:35:39","slug":"turn-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/publication\/669\/turn-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn The Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Human Rights Abuses and Illegal Fishing in Thailand\u2019s Overseas Fishing Industry<\/h2>\n<div class=\"leader\">Greenpeace\u2019s 12-month long investigation exposes the activities of Thailand\u2019s rogue overseas fishing fleets, the companies behind them and their supply chain connections to export markets.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southeastasia-stateless\/2019\/04\/a99d5300-a99d5300-turn-the-tide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the PDF here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 600px; height: 424px;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html#10477952\/41961357\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thailand is the world\u2019s fourth largest seafood exporter, earning\u00a0the country annual revenues of over USD 6.5 billion according to\u00a0recent figures.<span class=\"s1\">1 <\/span>In the last two years, Thailand\u2019s overseas fishing industry has been put under the spotlight as a stream of hard-hitting reports exposed the shocking human rights abuses linked to supply chains of major global seafood producers.<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span>At the same time, the\u00a0space in which unscrupulous Thai companies were able to operate\u00a0freely was rapidly shrinking as Southeast Asian governments,\u00a0including Thailand, took action against human trafficking and Illegal,\u00a0Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on a 12-month\u00a0long investigation, this report details the last fishing frenzy made\u00a0possible by the practice of transhipments at sea of Thailand\u2019s rogue\u00a0ghost fleets, before new regulations affected a temporary stoppage\u00a0in distant water fishing from January to July 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Turn the Tide<\/em> outlines Greenpeace Southeast Asia\u2019s investigations into IUU fishing, trafficking and other rights abuses \u2014 including fatalities resulting from negligence \u2014 aboard Thai distant water fishing vessels operating in the Indian Ocean. Research and analysis into fleet movements between 2014 and 2016 demonstrates how Thai overseas vessels fleeing crackdowns in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea arrived in an area of the Indian Ocean called the Saya de Malha Bank in the final half of 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southeastasia-stateless\/2019\/04\/a99d5300-a99d5300-turn-the-tide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Turn-The-Tide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tGreenpeace\u2019s 12-month long investigation exposes the activities of Thailand\u2019s rogue overseas fishing fleets, the companies behind them and their supply chain connections to export markets.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132,102],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oceans","tag-fishers-right","tag-thailand","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/southeastasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}