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The Politics of Fishmeal in Gambia
The double-edged sword of foreign investment
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Ian Urbina
Robbing A Bank When No One’s Looking
The most important place on earth that virtually no one has ever heard of is called the Saya de Malha Bank.
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Ian Urbina
Sometimes the Work Gets Noticed
I try to avoid using this channel for anything other than providing readers with substantive reporting.
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Ian Urbina
The North Koreans Putting Seafood on American and European Plates
Perhaps the only thing tougher than interviewing workers in China about human rights is doing the same in North Korea.
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Ian Urbina
Is That Legal?
A New Global Database Helps Answer This Question For Ships Fishing in National Waters
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Ian Urbina
The Whistleblower
An American took his dream job in India. What he found was something else entirely.
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Ian Urbina
Federal Authorities Take Action on China’s Fishing Fleet
Bad things happened on the Zhen Fa 7.
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Ian Urbina
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Austin Brush
To Reimagine the Realm: The Purpose of “Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean”
The first episode "Where Killers Go Free" is out now
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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…
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Ian Urbina
Call for the U.K. Government To Halt British Import of Chinese Seafood Connected to Forced Labor
This week an NGO filed a legal petition to the British government, seeking formal sanctions against seven Chinese companies that were revealed by the…
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Ian Urbina
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Austin Brush
The Outlaw Ocean Project Wins an Emmy
We do this journalism not to win awards but to highlight problems in a way that helps fix them.
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Ian Urbina
Did the China Investigation Have Impact?
The short answer is, in large measure, yes. But in some ways, no.
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Ian Urbina
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Austin Brush
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