For millions of people around the world, shrimp is a relatively cheap and enjoyable delicacy. Millions of pounds of shrimp are consumed yearly. In America alone, 10000000 pounds of shrimp is consumed each year. However, as the customer is consuming and enjoying the Shrimp, what they may not be familiar with is the extensive process it takes to get the shrimp from the ocean to a customer's plate. In recent times, it has been discovered that one of the largest shrimping company's, (name here), as well as others, have been committing numerous human rights violations in regards to slave labor inside of the shrimping industry in Thailand. This paper hopes to gain a greater understanding of the human rights situation within the fishing…show more content… In addition to being highly profitable, the shrimping industry is also highly sophisticated in its technology, using advanced, technical farming methods as well as a reliable, efficient export process. (cite) However, the pre-processing stage of the shrimping industry is extremely labor-intensive and not well regulated by the government, leaving this stage of production free from government inspection. (cite) It is here that one can find many migrant workers who are having their basic human and labor rights violated through abusive and unfair labor practices. (cite) Migrant workers from neighboring countries such as Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia will come to Thailand in the hopes to find a decent paying job in a booming industry such as shrimping. These migrant workers make up as much as ten percent of the Thai workforce as well as up to 90% of the workforce in the entire industry of seafood processing.…show more content… The International Labour Organization estimates that these facilities hold somewhere in the vicinity of 10,000 migrant children between the ages of 13-15 alone, not including other age groups. Based on a study conducted by the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking, 80 percent of these migrant workers, both children and adults, had not been given a contract, one-third of these workers claimed that their wages were either reduced or completely withheld as a penalty or threat, and half had been verbally abused by their employers. These claims give us a more clear perspective of the type of human and labor rights that are being