In the first episode we head out to sea and find out what life is like for migrant fishermen. We meet Indonesian fisherman Ari and a South Korea-based lawyer named JC Kim. They didn’t know it, but they were looking for each other for years – and their meeting created a spark for policy change that could transform the way the industry works.

Labor of Loss is brought you by the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of its USAID Asia CTIP project.