Sentence examples for on trawlers from inspiring English sources

The navy's amphibious transport ships could carry only one infantry division across the Taiwan Strait, leaving other troops dependent on trawlers and fishing boats.

Many of them sweat on trawlers or in vast fish-processing plants.

In effect, he said, Alaskans need jobs on trawlers more than sea lions need a few more cod.

It told us it knew that the Republic of Ireland does not grant Filipinos the necessary permits to work on trawlers coming in and out of Irish ports.

Several investigations by the Guardian over the past two years found that Thai and migrant slaves are being used on trawlers catching seafood in Thailand.

Whether describing how the ventilation cowls on trawlers had to be coated with grease as weather protection, or the exact process of cod skinning, Lavery transports us to an unforgiving place of hard labour and macho conservatism.

To estimate one possible source of bias due to subsampling, we tested whether the position on trawler sorting trays from which subsamples were taken affected their ability to represent species in catches.

Some migrant workers claim to have been deceived and appear to have been trafficked on to trawlers for labour exploitation, an abuse that would be a form of modern slavery.

The Environmental Justice Foundation also reported on slavery and forced labour imposed by violence on Thai trawlers, as well as alleged police collusion.

"What we have now is a new scheme to assist non-EEA workers, who are already operating on Irish vessels and a process to fill vacancies on licensed trawlers that is robust and fair," Nash said.

On reaching early adulthood he was meant to do duty on the trawlers (not really trawlers – 24ft open boats, fishing with long lines with baited hooks), but found that he suffered from crippling seasickness.