It's no secret that fishing is one of the most dangerous industries. In 1999, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated that some 24,000 people working in fisheries and related professions die every year. In 2019, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations increased that estimate to 32,000. However, research by the FISH Safety Foundation, an international non-profit working to make the global fishing industry safer, demonstrates that those figures hugely underestimate the scale of the problem.
Triggering Death. Quantifying the true human cost of global fishing, by the FISH Safety Foundation, puts fisher death rates at over 100,000 a year.
"Fishers die out of sight, out of mind. That's the bottom line," says Eric Holliday FIMarEST, Chief Executive of the FISH Safety Foundation and chair of IMarEST's Global Fisheries Improvements Special Interest Group.
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