Crew from one of the vessels in the '?zombie' graveyard of rusting Chinese fishing vessels, 150 km off the coast of West Africa. Whe Greenpeace first arrived there were nine or ten ships and on the return journey three had left. The crews said they had gone fishing.
This is the hidden story behind pirate fishing - the conditions of near-slavery imposed by ruthless fishing companies in the rush for quick money. The men on board aren't pirates - they're the victims, left to rot on broken-down trawlers, half a world away from their families. Human life is cheap, and profits take priority as the workers exist in terrible conditions often waiting for crew that never arrives. Some of them at have been at sea for two years, and that their trawler hasn't visited a port in eight.