[Hodar]

I had no idea what a cockle is.... Now, are they gathering them for food, or for the shell?

[Willie Green]

Looks like Globalism has brought about a resurgence in the slave trade.

[Cicero]

Is a gangmaster something like a foreman or work gang boss, or a gangster? I had assumed the former.

[dirtydanusa]

...are said to make tens of thousands of pounds a week profit by hiring hundreds of illegal Chinese immigrants on slave wages and making them work in unsafe conditions.

Are we talking about Walmart, Nike, Reebok, Motorola, Stanley tool or the thousands of other "American" corporations who have invested in China in order to compete in this global economy. Whats the difference if the workers are in China or shipped to where ever, someone is getting rich off of the slave labor of the Chinese.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"Last week a group of Scottish cocklers confronted some of the Chinese workers and accused them of taking under-sized specimens."

Oh my!

[.30Carbine]

Evil gangmasters who rule the cockle slave trade by fear

Eerily familiar. Seems I've seen that somewhere closer to home lately.

[drlevy88]

the workers would collect sufficient cockles to earn some of the gangmasters more than £20,000 a day

Who's eating all these cockles? Is the cockle the Irish national fish?

[dennisw]

What a shock! These "migrants" were called illegal aliens.

[Free Trapper]

Over the past 10 or 12 years I've noted a big increase in people with Oriental? names being picked up for taking game and fish with illegal methods in my parts,Texas-Okla.

Anyone harvesting undersized shellfish wouldn't be above taking endangered species that they happen upon that can bring a premium price in the underground wild game market to East Asia.

These poachers could ruin whole fisheries. :(