The high seas are rife with lawlessness
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Over fifty million people work on our oceans around the world and over 80% of the goods we consume are delivered by vessels navigating them. But when it comes to maintaining law and order on the high seas, is there anyone really in charge? Journalist Ian Urbina has spent over a decade trying to get to the bottom of this and other pressing questions. The result is The Outlaw Ocean Project, a multiplatform reporting effort whose goal is to support and encourage ethically sourced accountability journalism of all that takes place in or atop our vast oceans. Director and Founder Ian Urbina joins The Excerpt to talk about his work trying to bring accountability to the high seas.
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| 1:33.3 | Over 50 million people work on our oceans and over 80% of the goods we consume is delivered by vessels navigating them. But when it comes to maintaining law and order on the high seas, who's really in charge? |
| 1:38.6 | The answer is a difficult one to pin down. |
| 1:41.3 | Geographically, every country with a water border is responsible only for what |
| 1:45.4 | happens within a marginal distance from its shores. So what about the rest? Who polices fishing vessels |
| 1:52.2 | to ensure their operating in compliance with international law ensures that environmental protections |
| 1:58.0 | are enforced or prosecutes crimes like human trafficking and murder. |
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