When Below Deck bosun Ashton Pienaar tried to take a group of charter guests fishing in Thailand, he returned empty-handed. While he agreed to allow professional fishing expert deckhand Rhylee Gerber ...

From February to April each year, Kam Thon spends most of her days knee-deep in the waters of the Mekong River by her village ...

LONDON, Sept 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than a third of migrant fishermen in Thailand clearly were victims of trafficking over the past five years and even more workers in the industry ...

(Bangkok) – The Thai government has failed to address widespread labor rights abuses in Thailand’s fishing fleets, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to senior European Union officials. Human ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A survey of working conditions in Thailand’s fishing and seafood industry conducted by the U.N.’s International Labor Organization has found that new regulations resulted in progress in ...

After two years toiling without pay on a Thai fishing boat, Sai Ko Ko fell ill. “[The captain] verbally abused me but I was so sick I couldn’t work,” recalls the 21-year-old. “He knocked me down, ...

(New York) – Thailand’s military government should cancel a plan to encourage prisoners to work on fishing boats given the widespread abuses in the Thai fishery sector. On December 4, 2014, Labor ...

Reforms to address modern-day slavery in Thailand’s fishing fleets haven’t stamped out coercive labor practices in the industry, a leading human rights group says. The report, “Hidden Chains: Forced ...

It was around 100 years ago that the matriarch of the Supatra empire, Boonpan, started what is today the Supatra & Chao Phraya Express Boat Group. The boats were the size of sampans and were paddled ...