A rare look at one of the world's most critical and understudied environmental crises. Southeast Asia produces more than half of the world's fish, yet its waters are among the most depleted and contested.
"We were fighting over who had caught more fish, and then I saw my crewmate pushed overboard by the captain," Akbar Fitrian, 29, an Indonesian crewmember says as he recounts an incident aboard a Chinese-owned fishing vessel in 2022. "The ship then st... [11500 chars]