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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 25/08/2026

🐟 What can satellites reveal about forced labor at sea? A devastating hidden cost of the global fishing industry: modern slavery. Migrant workers from Southeast Asia have been kidnapped, trafficked, or deceived into working aboard fishing vessels in remote waters.

A background photo shows several large vessels lined up parallel and directly next to each other, rafted as they would be for transshipment. Overlaid at top are the SkyTruth and AP logos next to each other. a text box centered beneath has the following in white text: "Associated Press; Tracking Slave Ships from Space: Exposing Human Rights Abuses at Sea; Location: Southeast Asia"

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 25/08/2026

Some endure 20-hour shifts, violence, and little or no pay while the seafood they catch enters global supply chains. One way these operations stay hidden is through transshipment: fishing vessels transfer their catch to refrigerated cargo ships at sea to avoid returning to port for long stretches.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 25/08/2026

That makes it harder for workers to escape and obscures where seafood comes from. In 2015, satellite vessel tracking helped us identify a suspicious movement pattern involving the refrigerated cargo ship Silver Sea 2. We shared our findings with journalists at @apnews.com.

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