The Associated Press carried out an interview of Burmese slaves sitting on floor staring through the bars of the cage in which they were locked. These slaves were on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles away from their home.

An Associated Press video camera also captured few salves loading cargo ships with slave-caught seafood, a few yards away.

The seafood caught by the slaves is the major source of supply to major supermarkets, restaurants and even pet stores in the United States.

Eight imprisoned men were considered a flight risk as there were laborers who might dare to run away. These slaves live on very less rice and curry a day and have barely enough space to lie down.

Kyaw Naing dark eyes pleading into the camera said, "All I did was tell my captain I couldn't take it anymore, that I wanted to go home". But next time when the ship docked he saw that he was locked up.

There is also the Indonesian island village of Benjina and the surrounding waters, and hundreds of trapped men, representing one of the most desperate links criss-crossing between companies and countries in the seafood industry.

The men the AP interviewed on Benjina were mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, one of the world's poorest countries. These men were brought to Indonesia through Thailand and were forced to fish and catch seafood.

In a year-long investigation, the AP talked to more than 40 current and former slaves in Benjina. The AP documented the journey of a single large shipment of slave-caught seafood from the Indonesian village, tracking it by satellite to a gritty Thai harbor.