in an aegis ministry of manpower is among other things tasked with the protection of its workers abroad the department head acknowledges the problem but says it's difficult to monitor labor conditions at see. it that the law would go up but we're just starting 1st whether the information about the abused see pharaoh's is true or not. rely on data and facts so we can enforce sanctions lawfully in that country where the body double down on them. but as a raw material and his former crew mates no doubt are in fact difficult to obtain when you're at sea with no one watching the news because he got in the local he can make it any kind of now the university of western australia and the see around us research initiative have investigated forced labor on the high seas a little earlier i spoke to senior researcher david tickler about what they found we found a vicious cycle between over fishing and. basically slave labor subsidized on economic activity. and the resulting overfishing then destroyed property b.o.t.a. and other incentivise and uses forced labor well it's hard to fish hard to fill t