According to Dominique Barnes, CEO of plant-based seafood company New Wave Foods, the problem particularly persists in areas of Southeast Asia. "[The region has] these big companies raising shrimp, and this volume is so high, they need people to process it quickly. And so they’ll entice people saying 'Hey, we have jobs for you, come down to our farm, we’ll pay you, you’ll be able to eat,'” she told Foodbeast. "And so people put in all of their resources to get to this farm and then when they get there, they don’t get paid and become slaves to the industry."