Decent work in fisheries: Current trends and key considerations for future research and policy

Labor issues and human rights violations have become the subject of rising concern in fisheries seafood production. This paper reviews recent research on labor fishing industry, especially by environmental researchers nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) which are emerging as key players policy arenas. Recent has focused largely severe such forced labor, particularly ‘hotspot’ geographies, often relying indicators risk-based approaches given paucity data challenges monitoring working conditions. proposes that decent work – a concept associated with institutional history International Organization (ILO) but broad implications can contribute to overcoming gaps landscape, assessing improving range fisheries. The elaborates some considerations for studying promoting industry. Assessing achieving world’s requires (1) holistic approach work, concerns understood context interrelated interdependent sets rights, (2) consideration complex political-economic regimes histories production is embedded, perhaps most importantly, (3) workers play central role voice defining work. concludes future directions discussion promising pathways