For the third time since 2020, Taiwan’s fishing industry has been included on the annual “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor“ released by the U.S. government.
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00:00The US has once again named Taiwan's fishing industry in a report on forced labour.
00:07Here's how Taiwanese officials have responded.
00:30It's the third time Taiwan's fishing industry has been on the US blacklist of goods produced
00:36by child labour or forced labour.
00:39The country's fisheries are worth billions of dollars and rely heavily on foreign migrant
00:44workers.
00:45For years, the industry has been plagued by accusations of abuse on fishing vessels.