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 their nets. and this is because the global catch has been declining steadily since the mid ninety's. the constant sweep squeeze on probability means that owners see more and more desperate measures to cut their costs through often the largest and easiest cost to cut to cut. and so slave labor is is the tactic of choice front groups operators we found almost 40 percent of the global catch came from fleets that were a high risk of modern slavery now it's not as if the media hasn't reported on this the associated press even want to pulitzer prize for its reporting on slavery