China's Squid Fleet Alters Course to Avoid Peru's New Port Law.
Peru's new port regulation requiring foreign fishing boats to use a vessel monitoring system to combat illegal fishing by Chinese squid vessels has driven the world's largest overseas fishing fleet deeper into the shadows, increasing the risk of forced labor, according to new research. Instead of increasing oversight, the new Peruvian regulations appear to have driven Chinese ships away from the country's ports and kept crews made up of impoverished Filipinos and Indonesians at sea for longer periods, exposing them to abuse. Only three of the 671 Chinese vessels authorized to fish in the eastern Pacific have installed the equipment.