US investigative journalist, Ian Urbina: “The thing that has affected me the most is the extent of the violence in the fishing industry and its normalisation”

“The invisibility of a space that occupies two-thirds of the planet and has more than 50 million people working in it, with so little governmental and journalistic attention, is surprising.”Read the full article

By Brenda Chávez

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