Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/04
By: Wang Shwu-fen and Kuan-lin Liu

Kaohsiung, Oct. 4 (CNA) Taiwan will continue its efforts to improve conditions for

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migrant fisherman working at sea on Taiwanese ships, a Fisheries Agency official said Wednesday.

Even though Taiwan is not a member of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Fisheries Agency will adopt the ILO’s Work in Fishing Convention, which will go into effect in November, said Ted Tsai (蔡天享), a senior specialist in the agency’s Deep Sea Fisheries Division.

Speaking in Kaohsiung at the 24th World Congress of the Apostleship of the Sea, Tsai said the agency will ask all fishing enterprises in Taiwan to follow the terms of the ILO convention, which stipulates 10 hours of rest in any 24-hour period for fishery workers at sea, sets the minimum age for such workers at 16 years, and provides guidelines on other matters such as food and time off to return home.
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