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Impoverished migrant workers in Thailand are sold or Wholesale garden pond water pump for sale lured by false promises and forced to catch and process fish that ends up in global food giant Nestle SA’s supply chains. Boat captains rarely checked ages of workers, and Verite found underage workers forced to fish. "The propensity of the PR and legal departments of companies is not to ‘fess up, not to even say they are carefully looking into a problem for fear that they will get hit with lawsuits," he said. "I have been working on this boat for 10 years. It has promised to impose new requirements on all potential suppliers and train boat owners and captains about human rights, possibly with a demonstration vessel and rewards for altering their practices.

The labourers come from Myanmar and Cambodia. When someone dies, he gets thrown into the water," one Burmese worker told the non-profit organisation Verite commissioned by Nestle. The study found virtually all US and European companies buying seafood from Thailand are exposed to the same risks of abuse in their supply chains."Nestle said it would post the reports online — as well as a detailed yearlong solution strategy throughout 2016 — as part of ongoing efforts to protect workers. "Life is very difficult here. "Nestle believes that by working with suppliers we can make a positive difference to the sourcing of ingredients. But the Amherst, Massachusetts-based group said many of the problems they observed are systemic and not unique to Nestle; migrant workers throughout Thailand’s seafood sector are vulnerable to abuses as they are recruited, hired and employed, said Verite. Its findings echo those of AP in reports this year on slavery in the seafood industry that have resulted in the rescue of more than 2,000 fishermen.Boat captains and managers, along with workers, confirmed violence and danger in the Thai seafood sector, a booming industry which exports billion of products a year, although managers said workers sometimes got hurt because they were drunk and fighting.

"It’s unusual and exemplary," said Mark Lagon, president of the non-profit Freedom House, a Washington-based anti-trafficking organisation."Sometimes, the net is too heavy and workers get pulled into the water and just disappear. It’s one of several lawsuits filed in recent months against major US retailers importing seafood from Thailand." Nestle is not a major purchaser of seafood in Southeast Asia but does some business in Thailand, primarily for its Purina brand Fancy Feast cat food. Brokers illegally charge them fees to get jobs, trapping them into working on fishing vessels and at ports, mills and seafood farms in Thailand to pay back more money than they can ever earn. Monday’s disclosure is rare.. I am barely surviving," said another. I have no savings. Nestle promises to publicly report its progress each year.