Satellites can reveal risk of forced labor in the world's fishing fleet

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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2020

Vessels known to have crew that are subject to forced labor behave in systematically different ways to the rest of the global fishing fleet, reveals a new paper published in the scientific journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery was used to build a first-of-its-kind model to identify and predict vessels at high risk of engaging in these abuses. The study fou

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