As the demand for tuna grows — an industry worth $42bn — so does the risk of exploitation and trafficking, says British-based rights group
Buyers inspect frozen tuna prior to the year's first auction at Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, Japan. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/ TOMOHIRO OHSUMI
The report said only seven companies, including Bumble Bee Foods, Aldi Nord and Thai Union, the world’s largest canned tuna company, disclosed their entire supply chains. “Yet despite years of shocking abuses being exposed, tuna companies are taking little action to protect workers,” she said in a statement.
Thai Union Group in 2016 pledged to tackle potential labour abuse and overfishing, seeking to clean up the Thai seafood industry. Tesco told the Thomson Reuters Foundation it did not intend to hide anything and had missed the BHRRC survey.
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