Court told migrant fisherman worked for €2.83 an hour in conditions like 'modern slavery'

Migrant fisherman working on Irish registered trawlers claim they were exploited, underpaid, racially abused, worked to exhaustion and in some cases have been assaulted to a degree that their working conditions are akin to "modern slavery," the High Court has heard.

The court also heard that the investigations carried out by migrants' rights groups have revealed on average fishermen from non-EEA countries worked an average of approximately 116 hours per week, yet were only paid an average of €2.83 per hour.