HeyJaredThe Outlaw Ocean Project
A journalism non-profit chronicling the diversity of crimes on the high seas
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Forced Labor in China's Rapidly Expanding Aquaculture Industry (opens the original)
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Three years ago we revealed the extent of forced labor on China’s fishing boats on the high seas and in its seafood processing plants along its eastern coast. Today, that investigation moves deep inland to a thousand or so fish farms in the most landlocked region on earth in China’s Xinjiang region. We start by looking at the country’s largest producer of farmed salmon, a supplier of American military bases, public schools and US Congress. Read: The Tianyun Report.<a class="image-link image2 is-
Four New Outlaw Ocean Murals in The Philippines, Indonesia, and Uruguay (opens the original)
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The OO Mural Project was launched in 2022 and now includes 28 murals by artists across 10 countries. The goal of the murals is to expand the impact of our reporting by teaming up with storytellers of a different sort. In their own language, on canvases of their own choosing, these artists interpret the journalism and translate the issues more viscerally. By placing their art in public, they reach different audiences than our written work does. By doing interviews with local media, the artists al
Rhapsody on the Outlaw Ocean (opens the original)
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Over seven years ago, we embarked on a journey to do something new and ambitious: transform our investigative journalism into an animated rap-documentary, using a medium that could cross ages, borders, and backgrounds to reach an audience traditional reporting never could. The result is Rhapsody on the Outlaw Ocean, which brings to life more than a decade of offshore reporting into a film that merges journalism, animation, and music to illuminate one of the least understood spaces on Earth: the
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