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OO Podcast: The North Korean Women Supplying the West With Seafood
In February 2023, Donggang Jinhui Foodstuff, a seafood-processing company in China, threw a party.
Jul 24, 2025
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Ian Urbina
OO Podcast: The Forced Uyghur Labor Behind The Fish You Eat
On a cloudy morning in April 2023, more than eighty men and women, dressed in matching red windbreakers, stood in orderly lines in front of the train…
Jul 16, 2025
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Ian Urbina
OO Podcast: The Undisputed Superpower Of Seafood
Daniel Aritonang graduated from high school in May, 2018, hoping to find a job.
Jul 9, 2025
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Ian Urbina
OO Podcast: The Shrimp Factory Whistleblower
On October 29 2023, a 45-year-old American named Joshua Farinella flew into the city of Amalapuram near India’s eastern coast to start his new job as…
Jul 2, 2025
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Ian Urbina
June 2025
OO Podcast: The Repo Man Of The Seas
In Greece, Max Hardberger posed as an interested buyer, in Haiti as a port official, in Trinidad, a shipper.
Jun 25, 2025
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Ian Urbina
OO Podcast: A team of journalists at gunpoint (Libya Pt. 3)
The first three episodes of Season 2 of The Outlaw Ocean Podcast are now available, and we’re pleased to once again be working with CBC.
Jun 19, 2025
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Ian Urbina
OO Podcast: A War On Migration, Funded By The EU
On February 4, 2021, roughly 70 miles north of Libya, a reconnaissance plane with a camera on its underside circled a raft that was carrying a hundred…
Jun 4, 2025
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Ian Urbina
The Outlaw Ocean Podcast Returns for Season 2
Where the law of the land ends, the story begins
Jun 2, 2025
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Ian Urbina
May 2025
Federal Authorities Take Action on China’s Fishing Fleet
Bad things happened on the Zhen Fa 7.
May 29, 2025
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Ian Urbina
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Austin Brush
April 2025
Raking The Waters
In 2015, an infamously-scofflaw fleet of more than 70 bottom trawlers from Thailand fished in the Saya De Malha Bank.
Apr 16, 2025
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Ian Urbina
Plumbing Seafloor Wealth
For the past decade, the mining industry has argued that the ocean floor is an essential frontier for rare-earth metals needed in the batteries used in…
Apr 14, 2025
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Ian Urbina
Creating A New Nation
Vast and sometimes brutal, the high seas are also a place of aspiration, reinvention and an escape from rules.
Apr 10, 2025
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Ian Urbina
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