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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Fishing: ‘They are like loating prisons’
Continued from Page 1A
And since they’re not techni-
cally in the country, they’re at
the mercy of their American
captains on American-lagged,
American-owned
vessels,
catching choice swordish and
ahi tuna that can fetch more
than $1,000 apiece. The entire
system contradicts other state
and federal laws, yet operates
with the blessing of U.S. ofi-
cials and law enforcement.
“People say these isher-
men can’t leave their boats,
they’re like captives,” said U.S.
Attorney Florence Nakakuni in
Hawaii. “But they don’t have
visas, so they can’t leave their
boat, really.”
Associated Press
Selling on West Coast
Each of the roughly 140
boats in the leet docks about
once every three weeks, occa-
sionally at ports along the West
Coast, including Fisherman’s
Wharf in San Francisco, but
mainly at Piers 17 and 38 in
Honolulu. Their catch ends up at
fancy restaurants and in super-
markets’ premium ish count-
ers across the country, includ-
ing Whole Foods, Costco and
Sam’s Club.
All
companies
that
responded condemned the mis-
treatment of workers. Costco
said it was investigating. Wal-
Mart, which owns Sam’s Club,
declined to comment.
Charlie Nagle, whose family
has been in the seafood indus-
try for 130 years, said his buy-
ers “do not and will never know-
ingly source from vessels that
mistreat their crew.” Richard
Stavis of Stavis Seafood said
Thursday that his company is
not currently selling ish from
Hawaii.
Whole Foods spokeswoman
McKinzey Crossland said only
1 percent of the chain store’s
seafood comes from Hawaii,
and she has been assured that
boat crews are well paid with
bonuses and health insurance.
She added that the company is
looking into the issue.
The AP obtained conidential
contracts and interviewed boat
owners, brokers and more than
50 ishermen in Hawaii, Indone-
sia and San Francisco as part of
an ongoing global look at labor
abuses in the ishing industry.
Last year, the AP reported about
ishermen locked in a cage and
buried under fake names on the
remote Indonesian island village
of Benjina . Their catch was
traced to the United States, lead-
ing to more than 2,000 slaves
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Dr. Craig Nakatsuka, left, distributes medication and fruit to undocumented foreign fishermen
who work aboard American fishing boats in Honolulu in May. The doctor comes to Pier 38 with
a church outreach project that holds services for the men twice a week. He said he sees prob-
lems ranging from high blood pressure to skin infections due to a lack of gloves or improper
gear and is concerned about the possibility of scurvy from a lack of fruits and vegetables.
being freed. But thousands more
remain trapped worldwide in
a murky industry where work
takes place far from shore and
often without oversight.
‘Floating prisons’
In Hawaii, federal contrac-
tors paid to monitor catches are
troubled by what they’ve seen
while living at sea with the men.
“It’s like, ‘How is this even
legal? How is this possible?”’
said Forest O’Neill, who coor-
dinates boat observers in Hono-
lulu. “They are like loating
prisons.”
Under the law, U.S. citizens
must make up 75 percent of the
crew on most American com-
mercial ishing boats. But inlu-
ential lawmakers, including the
late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye,
pushed for a loophole to support
one of the state’s biggest indus-
tries. It exempted commercial
ishing boat owners from federal
rules enforced almost every-
where else.
Thus the workers in Hawaii,
who catch $110 million worth of
seafood annually, are paid as lit-
tle as 70 cents an hour. They are
detained on boats by captains
who are required by law to hold
their passports. That potentially
goes against federal human traf-
icking laws saying bosses who
hold workers’ identiication doc-
uments can face up to ive years
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HONOLULU — Around
700 undocumented foreign
workers, mostly from impov-
erished Southeast Asian and
Paciic Island nations, work
on Hawaii’s commercial
ishing leet, the country’s
ifth-highest grossing ishery.
They catch prized ahi tuna,
mahimahi and other seafood
at some of the country’s in-
est restaurants, markets and
hotels. They do not have visas
and cannot enter the country,
staying conined to their boats
for sometimes years at a time
— all with the blessing of
high-ranking federal lawmak-
ers and oficials. An Associ-
ated Press investigation found
instances of human trafick-
ing, active tuberculosis and
low food supplies.
How did they get to
Hawaii?
On some boats the ishermen
are paid as little as $350 a month,
but many make $500 to $600. A
lucky few get a percentage of
the catch, making it possible to
triple their wages. The men are
willing to give up their freedom
to take these jobs because the
pay is better than they can make
back home in developing coun-
tries where many people live on
less than $1 a day.
Boat owners pay brokers to
bring the men from overseas —
mostly from Indonesia, the Phil-
ippines, Vietnam and the tiny
Paciic island nation of Kiribati.
It costs about $10,000 to get
each isherman to Hawaii. In the
long run, foreign crews end up
being cheaper than bait and ice.
Workers typically sign two-
or three-year renewable con-
tracts, and some extend repeat-
edly, staying up to a decade on
boats with ive to six crew.
In rare cases, boat owners
can request passes from fed-
eral authorities to take workers
ashore for things such as medi-
cal care. The men also come on
land when their contracts are up
and it’s time to go home. Even
though they never legally enter
the United States, the govern-
ment provides a transit visa that
lets them exit through Honolu-
lu’s airport.
It’s a system that leaves the
foreign ishermen potentially
vulnerable.
“Most of the ish caught and
sold in Hawaii is done by the use
of exploiting migrant workers in
what looks to be a human traf-
icking scheme legitimized by
our own laws,” said Kathryn
Xian, who runs the nonproit
Paciic Alliance to Stop Slavery.
Signs posted at Pier 17 in
six languages offer a hotline to
help ishermen who have been
traficked. That’s what hap-
pened to Abdul Fatah and Sori-
hin, who uses one name. The
Indonesians ran away from
their boat six years ago when
it docked in San Francisco and
were eventually granted visas
after being designated as vic-
tims of traficking.
Sorihin has some advice for
American seafood lovers: “Ask,
where did this ish come from?
Is it the kind of ish that you got
from someone in slavery?”
Read the entire Sea-
food From Slaves series:
http://www.ap.org/explore/
seafood-from-slaves/
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Indonesia, the Philippines,
Vietnam and the tiny Paciic
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They are not permitted to ly
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down to as little as 70 cents
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
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In the Matter of the Ancillary
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No. 16PB05716
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15th, and 22nd, 2016
to set foot on shore because
they are undocumented, non-
immigrants without visas.
They have not technically
entered the country and have
no paperwork granting them
access even onto the docks.
They are, by law, detained
by their boat captains who
hold onto their passports. In
rare cases, boat owners can
request passes from federal
authorities to take the isher-
men ashore for things such
as medical care. Though
the men are not technically
allowed to leave their ves-
sels, security guards turn a
blind eye when they go onto
the docks, but no farther, to
see friends.
Who oversees this
system and how
is it legal?
Oficials from U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection
and the Coast Guard mon-
itor the use of foreign labor
in Hawaii’s commercial ish-
ing leet, made up of about
140 boats. The federal agen-
cies have no authority to set
wages, but they do intervene
when ishermen say their sal-
aries are late or complain
about other problems. The
U.S. Attorney’s ofice says
the system is legal.
A loophole in federal reg-
ulations pushed by lawmak-
ers including late Hawaii Sen.
Daniel Inouye allows foreign
men to work on the leet. Fish-
ermen were initially allowed
to ly to Hawaii, but that ended
after the Sept. 11 attacks.
What kind of seafood
do the ishermen catch
The men catch seafood
including marlin, swordish
and ahi tuna used to make
poke, a Hawaiian salad
made with raw ish that’s a
staple in the islands. One ish
can bring as much as $1,000
at Hawaii’s ish auction, the
only one of its kind still oper-
ating in the U.S. The bulk
of the catch goes to restau-
rants, hotels and markets in
Hawaii, but about 20 per-
cent is shipped to the main-
land, where it’s served in
some of the country’s inest
restaurants.
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AB5292
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OREGON FOR
THE COUNTY OF CLATSOP
In the Matter of the Estate of
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Case No. 16PB05673
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