By means of an exhaustive interview course of with deckhands who labored all through the corporate’s fleet, the crew confirmed that Dalian Ocean Fishing intentionally used banned gear to focus on sharks throughout an enormous swath of the western Pacific Ocean.
- Podcast host Mike G. speaks with Mongabay reporters who performed current investigations revealing a significant and unlawful shark finning operation by one in every of China’s largest fishing fleets, and the involvement of a significant Japanese firm, Mitsubishi, in shopping for that fleet’s merchandise.
- By means of an exhaustive interview course of with deckhands who labored all through the corporate’s fleet, the crew confirmed that Dalian Ocean Fishing intentionally used banned gear to focus on sharks throughout an enormous swath of the western Pacific Ocean.
- The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Fee is presently assembly to debate insurance policies that may crack down even additional on use of this gear, and we converse with Phil Jacobson who’s there protecting the occasion.
- We additionally converse with Japan-based reporter Annelise Giseburt who was capable of confirm that the unlawful operation benefited significantly from promoting an enormous share of its tuna catch to the Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi.
A serious investigative report not too long ago printed by Mongabay uncovered an enormous, clandestine and unlawful shark finning operation throughout the fleet of one in every of China’s largest tuna fishing corporations.
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We converse with Mongabay’s senior editor for Southeast Asia, Philip Jacobson, who performed the investigation along with Basten Gokkon, a senior Indonesia workers author for Mongabay. Jacobson particulars how he and Gokkon can now reveal that the Dalian Ocean Fishing (DOF) firm was utilizing banned fishing gear to intentionally catch sharks in worldwide waters on such an enormous scale that the shark catch for all the nation of China might have been undercounted for years.
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Fee is presently assembly to debate insurance policies that may crack down even additional on use of this gear, and Jacobson is there protecting the occasion.
Then reporter Annelise Gisebert, a Japan-based freelance journalist, shares how she performed a follow-up investigation into who was doing enterprise with DOF whereas it was conducting its unlawful shark finning operation. She tells us that almost all of DOF’s tuna was bought by the seafood buying and selling arm of Japan’s Mitsubishi Company.
The investigations:
In September of 2021, Mongabay printed its first exposé of DOF, an award-winning investigation that appeared into the corporate’s labor practices and dwelling circumstances on its fishing vessels. That investigation got here after the information broke that 4 Indonesian deckhands had fallen sick and died from unknown diseases because of the horrendous circumstances on one in every of their boats.
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