Seafood from Slaves

In this April 8, 2017 photo, Myint Naing looks out from his sister’s house in Mudon, Mon State, Myanmar. Naing, one of the enslaved fishermen who was freed more than two years ago, has been forced to travel hundreds of miles to find back-breaking labor that pays only a few dollars a day. He dreams of opening a little snack shop to help contribute to the family’s income, but there is no money to start it. AP PHOTO / Thein Zaw

A catch of fish is unloaded from a commercial fishing boat at Pier 38 in Honolulu, Feb. 2, 2017. AP PHOTO / Caleb Jones

President Barack Obama, joined by from left, Gil Kerlikowske, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Org., Rep. Eddie Johnson, D-Texas., Rep. David Reichert, R-Wash., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Col., Rep. Ron Kind., D-Wisc., applauds after signing House Resolution 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. AP PHOTO / CAROLYN KASTER

In this Monday, Nov. 9, 2015 photo, children and teenagers sit together to be registered by officials during a raid on a shrimp shed in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Abuse is common in Samut Sakhon, which attracts workers from some of the world’s poorest countries, mostly from Myanmar. An International Labor Organization report estimated 10,000 migrant children aged 13 to 15 work in the city. Another U.N. agency study found nearly 60 percent of Burmese laborers toiling in its seafood processing industry were victims of forced labor. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

This Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 photo shows shrimp products from Thailand packaged under the name "Waterfront Bistro" at a Safeway grocery store in Phoenix. Despite Thailand's repeated promises to clean up in its $7 billion seafood export industry, little has changed, and shrimp peeled by slaves can still end up in the U.S., Europe and Asia, an Associated Press investigation has found. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Female workers sort shrimp at a seafood market in Mahachai, Thailand, Sept. 30, 2015. Shrimp is the most-loved seafood in the U.S., with Americans downing 1.3 billion pounds every year, or about 4 pounds per person. Once a luxury reserved for special occasions, it became cheaper when farmers in Asia started growing it in ponds three decades ago. Thailand quickly dominated the market and now sends nearly half of its supply to the U.S. AP PHOTO / GEMUNU AMARASINGHE

A Burmese fisherman, center, is embraced by a friend as he leaves the port town of Ambon, Maluku province, Indonesia, Sept. 8, 2015. AP PHOTO / ACHMAD IBRAHIM

In this Saturday, April 4, 2015 file photo, recently rescued Burmese fishermen smile on their boat upon arrival in Tual, Indonesia. The Burmese men were among hundreds of migrant workers revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been lured or tricked into leaving their countries and were brought to Indonesia to be forced to catch seafood. The number of enslaved fisherman found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned on Thursday, April 9, to make sure no one had been left behind in the dramatic rescue nearly a week ago of 330 migrants from Benjina.(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara, File)

In this July 1, 2015, photo, former Burmese slave fishermen Kaung Htet Wai, left, and Lin Lin, second left, point to a satellite image of a refrigerated cargo ship owned by Silver Sea Fishery Co., in waters off Papua New Guinea, while looking at a laptop screen at their home in Yangon, Myanmar. They said they were among the forced laborers loading slave-caught fish from their trawlers onto the Thai-owned vessel. They say hundreds of fisherman remain trapped at sea. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

In this May 16, 2015, photo, former slave fisherman Myint Naing, left, is embraced by his mother Khin Than, second left, as his sister Mawli Than, right, is overcome with emotion after they were reunited after 22 years in their village in Mon State, Myanmar. Myint, 40, is among hundreds of former slave fishermen who returned to Myanmar following an Associated Press investigation into the use of forced labor in Southeast Asia’s seafood industry. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

In this Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 photo, workers in Benjina, Indonesia, load fish into a cargo ship bound for Thailand. Seafood caught by slaves mixes in with other fish at a number of sites in Thailand, including processing plants. U.S. Customs records show that several of those Thai factories ship to the United States. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)