Exclusive: Sleep deprivation,inhuman hours and low pay revealed in Guardian investigation of undocumented migrants working on prawn and whitefish trawlers operating from IrelandAfrican and Asian migrant workers are being routinely but illegally used as cheap labour on Irish fishing trawlers working out of some of the country’s most well-liked tourist ports, the Guardian can reveal.
A year-long investigation into the Irish prawn and whitefish sector has uncovered undocumented Ghanaian, and Filipino,Egyptian and Indian fishermen manning boats in ports from Cork to Galway. They hold described a catalogue of abuses, including being confined to vessels unless given permission by their skippers to go on land, and being paid less than half the Irish minimum wage that would apply if they were legally employed. They hold also spoken of extreme sleep deprivation,having to work for days or nights on stop with only a few hours’ sleep, and with no proper rest days.
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Source: theguardian.com