From debt-bonded crews to violence at sea, Photojournalist Nicole Tung’s reporting reveals the hidden human and environmental costs behind global seafood.

In India's Bhimavaram, a massive hub for shrimp exports, the continuing uncertainty over U.S. trade tariffs has left a devastating impact on the lives of women workers.

A commercial street frequented by Chinese and Indonesian workers near the entrance of the industrial compound in Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia. (Wufei Yu/Grist)

Despite CPC’s mission to “promote the social and economic empowerment” of Asian American communities, they have played a role in enforcing 24-hour workdays for home care workers with only 13 hours of pay. Protestors complain that the “stolen” wages of 11 hours a day, now amounting to over $90 million in lost wages, have been used to build the 30-storey luxury tower in Manhattan that they now hold signs in front of.