Wow, Katherine Xian has stopped eating ahi to protest labor conditions in the HI LL fleet?!  I'm lol at her fear-mongering re: the dangers of terrorist crews swimming to shore.  It seems obvious from her comments that she hasn't a clue about the industry she is trying to punish with her boycott.  Absent from this whole debacle (which was centered around alleged labor abuses on a single vessel over 6 years ago and for which no legal case has been brought) are the perspectives of current crewmen.  If they are happily employed, have signed contracts etc, I just don't see how Xian et al get off labeling them as slaves.  Because they don't defecate in ceramic appliances?   My first season longlining for cod in the Bering Sea lasted 90 days and as a greenhorn I made about $10k... minus my fishing gear like boots and slicks, plane ticket, chewing tobacco, phone calls home between trips etc  I came home with about $8k that season and felt worn down physically, but rich!