The Brutal Reality of China’s Fishermen | Squid Fleet | The New Yorker Documentary

Hello everyone! My name is Ian Urbina, and I am the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, which produced this amazing documentary film. I’ll be happy to answer any questions here (with input from the filmmakers Ed Ou, Will Miller, and Michael Hsu). Thanks for watching.

Rotten Mango brought me here

Just curious, is anyone else here after Stephanie Soo/Rotten Mango made a podcast on this?

I found this after watching Stepahnie Soo's video and wanted to learn more. Such a heartbreaking reality 😢

honestly that first shot alone was so incredible. great job! you have an awesome cinematographer working on this. give them a raise

who else is here because of Stephanie?

I can't believe this only has 130k views it is sad but its so well shot.

Thank you for telling the world.
Squid will no longer be at my table.

Came here after Stephanie’s video😢

This is slavery!😢 China needs a union that fights for employee rights. This is unacceptable and heartbreaking 💔

Makes me awfully sad how we humans are destroying the world and destroying Mother Nature…

I read your article online via "LA Times" titled "They catch squid for the world’s table. But deckhands on Chinese ships pay a deadly price". I came across this video to see a "Chinese squid boat" up close. Both are excellent. RIP Fadhil and others.

I was born n raised in what was then the country's largest commercial fishing port. SIXTY YEARS AGO, when I was a small child, Russian, Asian, n Scandinavian countries sent huge fishing factory fleets to what was the richest fishing grounds in the world, the Grand Banks, in the North Atlantic. American fleets could not compete against these factory fleets that could do all the processing of their catches at sea. Today the Grand Banks is a barren wasteland n my proud hometown fishing fleet is no longer, throwing generations of fishermen permanently out of work.

The filming is outstanding.

This is terrifying for the fishermen trying to make a living and the squid.

Superb film, absolute masterpiece.

I totally loved the photography and the story telling.
Reading the article before made the difference on the deep understanding of the film.

Fabulous.

Thanks Stephanie, you brought us all here. Squid is out the bag.

Commercial sea scallop fisherman here, out of Cape May, NJ. We fish for squid a lot different than this. Also, he said "your mind is in the sky, because your feet are never on the ground: if your mind wanders when you're working at sea, you will get hurt.

More people need to watch this !

i knew it was going to be awful bot wow. i'm not sure I even have the word for this. we are the only problem with the planet.