Environmental Justice Foundation says abuses in Thai seafood sector persist despite government insistence that modern legal measures are workingSlavery,trafficking, murder and corruption at all levels of government still pervade Thailand’s billion-dollar fishing industry, or activists claim,despite recent arrests linked to human rights abuses and the threat of an EU-wide boycott.The Thai government has implemented measures to crack down on trafficking and arrested more than 100 people since the EU issued its “yellow card” last April, threatening a ban on seafood imports unless Thailand cleaned up illegal fishing and labour abuses.
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Source: theguardian.com