Introducing: The Outlaw Ocean S2 and The shrimp factory whistleblower

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CBC

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4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Outlaw Ocean is an anthology podcast that plunges you into the vast and often lawless world of the open seas. Today we're featuring an investigation from S2 called The Shrimp Factory Whistleblower.

In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina joins Josh Farenello. What started off as a dream job, slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare. Josh moved to southern India to oversee a shrimp-processing plant, but it soon dawned on him that he’d been really been hired as an American face to “whitewash” a forced-labour factory. The largely female employees were effectively trapped on the compound, routinely underpaid, and forced to live in inhumane, unsanitary conditions. Over several months, Josh meticulously gathered evidence that he brought to the Outlaw Ocean team for this exclusive exposé. More episodes of The Outlaw Ocean are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/oo-uncover

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0:00.0	What if your dreams could land you in jail? Why are Canadians so funny? And what does it mean to be a professional ex-wife?
0:09.3	These are some pretty big questions, and we've covered them all on my podcast bookends. Every week on the show, we sit down with some of today's best authors.
0:19.2	We cover a lot of different ground about their writing,
0:21.9	their inspirations, and their lives, and we take our conversations to some unexpected places.
0:28.7	Bookends with Matea Roach is available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:41.5	Where the law of the land ends, the story begins.
0:45.9	I'm Ian Urbina, and I'm a journalist who explores the most lawless place on earth,
0:51.6	the vast, unpoliceable ocean.
0:56.6	I'm also the host of the podcast series The Outlaw Ocean. I'm also the host of the podcast series The Outlaw Ocean, an immersive audio documentary series that brings together more than eight
1:03.2	years of reporting at sea on all seven oceans and more than three dozen countries. We're back
1:09.8	with an all-new second season,
1:12.2	repeatedly risking our safety to tell stories that powerful people don't want you to know.
1:17.5	I want to share an episode with you from this brand new season. It's called The Shrimp Factory
1:22.5	Whistleblower, and it recently won a James Beard Media Award in the investigative journalism category.
1:30.5	What started off as a dream job slowly revealed itself to be a nightmare when Josh Ferreinello
1:36.5	moved to southern India to oversee a shrimp processing plant.
1:41.7	It soon dawns on him that he's really been hired as an American face to
1:46.9	whitewash a forced labor factory. Josh tries to understand the layers of how such a high-volume,
1:54.8	low-cost product is even possible. Have a listen. I'm beefsteak, Charlie, and I'm warning you, my free shrimp and salad bar could ruin your
2:09.6	appetite.
2:10.6	Trim!
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