Ian Urbina

Ian Urbina is the director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington DC that focuses on environmental and human rights concerns at sea globally.

To Project Power Globally, China Has Become the Superpower of Seafood

Published Nov 16, 2023 11:47 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Offshore

  In the early morning hours of March 8, 2021, a small inflatable boat powered by an outboard motor covertly made its way...

The Uyghurs Forced to Process the World’s Fish

Published Nov 13, 2023 12:05 AM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Government

On a cloudy morning this past April, more than eighty men and women, dressed in matching red windbreakers, stood in orderly lines...

Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean Episode 10: Freedom or Death

Published Jun 19, 2023 4:50 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Tugs & Salvage

This episode is the tenth and final installment in a short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more...

Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean Episode 6: The Fish We Turn to Dust

Published May 25, 2023 6:14 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

This episode is the sixth installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more t...

Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean Episode 5: Raiders of the Deep

Published May 15, 2023 11:01 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

This episode is the fifth installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more t...

Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean Episode 4: The Magic Pipe

Published May 10, 2023 10:03 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

This episode is the fourth installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more...

Dispatches From The Outlaw Ocean Ep. 3: Dreamers of a Floating World

Published May 3, 2023 6:58 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Offshore

This episode is the third installment in a 10-part short film series from The Outlaw Ocean Project. It stems from more t...

Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean Episode 1: Where Killers Go Free

Published Apr 17, 2023 9:34 AM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Shipping

In this first episode of "Dispatches from The Outlaw Ocean," a gruesome video turns up on a cell phone, abandoned i...

Outlaw Ocean Podcast: Intentional Dumping May Be Worse Than Oil Spills

Published Oct 31, 2022 3:18 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Shipping

When a ship inadvertently spills oil, it’s big news. But according to an investigation by The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-pr...

Outlaw Ocean Podcast: How One Third of All Fish Caught Become Fishmeal

Published Oct 24, 2022 2:50 PM by Ian Urbina

Posted in: Environment

The oceans are running out of fish. To slow down that problem environmentalists pushed for fish farming, or aquaculture. This was...

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