In Arcachon, among a community of Senegalese fishermen in southern France, one finds an example of migrant workers who have relocated into the EU. (Photo: Fredrik Ohlander)

Feature

Caught in the net — Migrant rights ignored in EU fishing sector

Migration

Health & Society

by Crossborder Journalism Campus, Gothenburg & Paris,

In Arcachon, among a community of Senegalese fishermen in southern France, one finds an example of migrant workers who have relocated into the EU. (Photo: Fredrik Ohlander)

Underpaid, overworked and invisible — experts say that fishers in the EU are being abandoned in an industry with a lack of oversight.

The EU fishing industry increasingly relies on migrant labour due to an ageing workforce and declining work conditions, making it less attractive for EU nationals.

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Migration Health & Society Feature

Author Bio

Stijn Bakker, Sally Börjesson, Thomas van Caenegem, Saimah Jiwa, Matej Kyjovský and Helle Lyrstrand Larssen, students of MSc Investigative Journalism, University of Gothenburg and Victoria Lavelle and Alex Talandier, students at Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris worked on labour migration and the fishing industry in a cross-border collaboration, with an additional team in Germany, for over six months.