英文摘要 |
This article first describes the historical development of distant water fisheries in particular addressing the replacement of labour supply by the Chinese and migrant fishers in recent decades. The following part indicates the specific nature of distant water fisheries and the vulnerability in negotiation within the fishery supply chain. The third part describes the phenomena of the transformation of fishing supply chain into exploitation chain as a way to maximize profit and to avoid cost of governance. In 2015, the EU gave yellow card to Taiwan government for the weak governance in distant water fisheries. This warning action urges the Taiwan government to hold responsibility in the fight against fishery crimes including IUU. To decipher the causal relationships between distant water fishery and the phenomena of forced labour, the author applied a modified theoretical framework provided by Crane Andrew. The modified framework follows Crane's hypothetical assumption by taking modern slavery as a business management model. The author tends to categorise enabling conditions of forced labour, control capability and strategic actions by employing the Giant Ocean case, widely reported as an example for analysis. The author concludes that the fundamental approach is to provide a theoretical proposal on sketching the labour production system of distant water fisheries industry of Taiwan. Maximising economic profit by exploiting the ocean and risk delegation from top to the ground under a built consent. As there are lack of strong regulation among and between governments, the labour exploitation system built on stakeholders' manufactured conscent has become daily. |