Journalist Ian Urbina spent 5 years documenting crimes at sea like arms trafficking, illegal fishing, and sea slavery — here's how they have a ripple effect on the environment. » Subscribe to NowThis:
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In US news and current events today, Ian Urbina is an
investigative journalist. He spent 5 years reporting offshore crimes
in international waters across all 5 oceans that violate human rights laws and environmental regulations.
Urbina: 'You know sea slavery, murder of stowaways, arms trafficking, intentional dumping of everything under the sun including oil and nuclear goods, illegal fishing overfishing, and illegal whaling.
One of the things that I really wanted to do was look at the intersection of environmental and human rights and it is a real thing to think about the ways in which one type of crime often drives the other. For example on the issue of sea slavery
there's real evidence that as industrial fishing especially has raked clean the fishing stocks that are near shore and really depleted those stocks to extreme degrees fishing boats are now having to go so much further out from shore to catch a bare minimum.
What that has done in many places like on the South China Sea in the Thai fleet, is it's incentivized the use of migrant trafficked workers because you can get them on the cheap and you also might just not have to pay them at all. And that's a perfect example of how environmental threats are making human rights abuses even worse.'
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