Marcella Boehler

Marcella Boehler is global publishing editor at The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit journalism organization based in Washington D.C. that produces investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two thirds of the planet covered by water.

A Chinese squid jigger off the Galapagos Islands (Ben Blankenship / Outlaw Ocean Project)

The Undisputed Superpower Of The Seas

Published Jul 16, 2025 7:40 PM by Marcella Boehler

Posted in: Environment

  Daniel Aritonang graduated from high school in May, 2018, hoping to find a job. Short and lithe, he lived in the coastal...

The Choice Canning shrimp processing plant in Amalapuram, India (Ben Blankenship / Outlaw Ocean Project)

The Shrimp Factory Whistleblower

Published Jul 15, 2025 5:44 PM by Marcella Boehler

Posted in: Environment

  On October 29 2023, a 45-year-old American named Joshua Farinella flew into the city of Amalapuram near India’s ea...

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The Grandfather of White-Collar Piracy

Published Jul 2, 2025 2:33 PM by Marcella Boehler

Posted in: Tugs & Salvage

  In Greece, Max Hardberger posed as an interested buyer, in Haiti as a port official, in Trinidad, a shipper. He has plie...

Migrants at the Al Mabani detention center in Libya (Pierre Kattar / The Outlaw Ocean Project)

Inside Libya's War on Migration

Published Jun 6, 2025 8:46 AM by Marcella Boehler

Posted in: Government

  On February 4, 2021, roughly 70 miles north of Libya, a reconnaissance plane with a camera on its underside circled a ra...

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