This month we are giving away a copy of The Catch, by Michael Field. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Mandy Allan at m.allan@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 3 October 2014.
On November 9, 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific, a Korean ship came alongside Tai Ching 21. The Taiwan-flagged fishing boat was eerily silent. Three life rafts were missing, along with all 29 of the Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino crew. A quest to discover the men's identities led journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing the waters of New Zealand, other Pacific nations, and the Southern Ocean. He uncovered brutality, misery and death, and impending ecological disaster – the destruction of the last great southern schools of fish.
With University of Auckland Business School researchers Dr Christina Stringer and Glenn Simmons, he forced the New Zealand government to take action to put an end to the illegal fishing practices of these vessels and the appalling working conditions of their crews.
This month we are giving away a copy of The Catch, by Michael Field. To enter the draw, please email your name and address to Alumni Relations Manager Mandy Allan at m.allan@auckland.ac.nz. The winner will be notified on 3 October 2014.
On November 9, 2008, near Kiribati in the Pacific, a Korean ship came alongside Tai Ching 21. The Taiwan-flagged fishing boat was eerily silent. Three life rafts were missing, along with all 29 of the Taiwanese officers and Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino crew. A quest to discover the men's identities led journalist Michael Field into a dark world of foreign-flagged vessels fishing the waters of New Zealand, other Pacific nations, and the Southern Ocean. He uncovered brutality, misery and death, and impending ecological disaster – the destruction of the last great southern schools of fish.
With University of Auckland Business School researchers Dr Christina Stringer and Glenn Simmons, he forced the New Zealand government to take action to put an end to the illegal fishing practices of these vessels and the appalling working conditions of their crews.
In The Catch: How fishing companies reinvented slavery and plunder the oceans, Field documents the disturbing findings that prompted a Ministerial enquiry and new legislation requiring all foreign charter vessels to operate under New Zealand jurisdiction.
Author
Michael Field has been a newspaper and agency reporter for 35 years, mostly covering the South Pacific. A former Agence France-Presse correspondent, he now reports for Fairfax Media and has been a commentator on Radio New Zealand National's Nine to Noon programme for over a decade. His previous books include a landmark study of Samoa's independence movement, the Mau, which led New Zealand to formally apologise, and an account of Fiji's coups.
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