Armed and Dangerous

This fantasy is that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts making a livable wage and still deliver a 5 ounce can of skipjack tuna for 2 dollars and 50 cents that ends up on the grocery shelf only days after the fish was pulled from the water thousands of miles away

Prices that low and efficiencies that tight come with hidden costs. And it is the manning agencies that help in the hiding. Hidden costs are by no means distinct to fishing since the industrial revolution other industries have been allowed to dump carbon into the air for free for example and that hidden cost to the public has accumulated into what we now call climate change

There is however far less awareness of the hidden costs that exist in fishing because the oceans are such a removed realm. Fishing companies would most likely struggle to stay financially afloat if they had to recruit and handle the logistics for the men who work such dangerous jobs at impossibly low wages. Lawlessness at sea and the willingness of consumers and governments to ignore these hidden costs, were kind of a subsidy helping keep many of these fishing fleets financially afloat

[Radio Communication]
I was going to shore and I was just giving you a warning. I want you to record this fucking warning: "If each one of this boats is trying to *inaudible* today. I will be armed with fucking guns."
Please, get to fucking sailing, get that fucking idiots and your rubber dinghies along side. But, marks my words, if one of them fucking dinghies is along side either one of them Scottish boats today or tomorrow morning, I bet one of your guys is getting severely fucking harmed. Now, you are warned. There is no fucking way *inaudible* is going here, because of you and your fucking lazy fucks are rubbing about all over our dinghies and smiling in our faces, we're done with your fucking nights, and your fucking women *inaudible*

And I want you to record this fucking message, because it's the last warning and you're gonna get that Scottish *inaudible* rubber dinghies is gonna get severely hurt *inaudible* again. And I've got clearance by the lawyers in Scotland so we could fucking shoot you fuckers if you come along say things again. So, take a fucking note!