Thai Union: ‘100% of supply chain’ will be audited by 2016
Thai Union aims to have audited all of its supply chain across all species by next year, as it emerges Thailand will stay on Tier 3 of 2015 US TIP report
Thai Union no longer buying from motherships cited in NYT article
New York Times alleges Thai Union bought fish transshipped at sea from vessel using slave workers, but Thai firm claims it has stopped buying from motherships at start of year
Thailand remains at ‘Tier 3’ on 2015 US TIP report
Thailand is still on Tier 3 in the latest US Trafficking in Persons report having been downgraded last year, partly due to issues in its seafood sector
Thai prime minister awaits 2015 TIP report due out Monday
The US government will release the 2015 TIP report next Monday, July 27
Fresh Guardian report exposes more slavery in Thai seafood sector
Investigation the Guardian establishes Rohingya migrants trafficked through jungle camps have been sold to Thai fishing vessels as slaves to produce seafood sold across the world
Trafficking boss, accomplices arrested in raid on Thai shrimp factory
Arrests followed the rescue of scores of migrants from Burma who had been confined in a shrimp peeling facility
Thailand hopes fishing crackdown will see EU pull ‘yellow card’
Thai seafood and fishmeal processors are confident that tougher fishing rules will improve the European Union's estimation of this country's efficiency in fishery management
Thailand seafood shortage looms
Many Thai seafood markets will be forced to halt business as they are running out of supplies with the tougher fishing regulations coming into effect from Wednesday
Thailand begins fishing regulations, though industry calls for delay
Thousands of Thai fishing boats remained tied up on July 1, as operators scrambled to meet new regulations aimed at avoiding a European ban on seafood imports from Thailand
Thais arrest two men suspected of selling slaves to the fishing industry
Thai officials have reportedly arrested two men they suspect of involvement in a human trafficking group officials say sold people into slavery aboard fishing vessels