Though this does not directly affect the UK, it does reveal how important the provenance of the catch is with regard to the extent to which the catching and subsequent handling of fish are not transparent. Using tags on fish like Cornish line caught bass and pollock and QR codes like Ajax hake help the food chain maintain standards of transparency.
For Americans, the calculation is worrisome. Thailand is the United States’ second-largest supplier of foreign seafood. Of America's total seafood imports, one out of every six pounds comes from the Southeast Asian nation. The accounts of ex-slaves, Thai fishing syndicates, officials, exporters and anti-trafficking case workers, gathered by GlobalPost in a three-month investigation, illuminate an opaque offshore supply chain enmeshed in slavery.
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