TAIPEI (AFP): Taiwan said Thursday (April 21) it will spend more than Tw$2 billion (US$68.5 million) to improve the welfare of foreigners working in its fishing industry, which has been accused of widespread abuse of migrants.
The island operates the world's second-largest deep-sea fishing fleet, with boats spending months -- and sometimes years -- crossing remote oceans to supply the seafood that ends up on our supermarket shelves.
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