Resources

Below are a few awesome resources I discovered while in this course:

Global Fishing Watch – This is an awesome website where you can actually track fishing vessels in real time. Found out about this website from Commander Tony Long:

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Oceanwise Food Labels: Came across this website in our tutorial for food labelling. It gives a great run over of what the Oceanwise and MSC standards are, and what the labels that we see everyday on our seafood actually mean!

Our Standards

Slave Labour in the Shrimp Industry: One of the most shocking things I learned in this course, is that the working conditions inside Thailand’s shrimp industry is shockingly bad. And the human rights – even worse. Slave labour and human trafficking is a problem with this industry. The article below details it very well

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jan/23/thai-seafood-industry-report-trafficking-rights-abuses

Indigenous Ally Toolkit: Dr. Andrea Reid suggested this toolkit as a way to approach indigenous issues as a non-indigenous ally.

http://reseaumtlnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Ally_March.pdf

 

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