Salas, D., Sheik Heile, A., Schnurr, M.A., de Jong, M., Duff, M., Swanson, K. (2026). Seas of unfreedom: A scoping review of labour exploitation as a structural feature of global fisheries. Marine Policy, 191, 107147.
Global fisheries face a dual crisis of ecological decline and widespread labour exploitation. While “modern slavery” in fisheries has attracted significant attention, the evidence remains fragmented across disciplines, obscuring the systemic nature of the problem. This scoping review maps the current state of knowledge on labour abuses in marine-based fisheries and identifies critical geographic, thematic, …