iii. Living Facilities (1) Life onboard Reyne, a Filipino fisher working on a CT4 small fishing vessel in Taiwan, shares his day-to-day life on the boat. The vessel accommodates 13 people who all sleep in a single large room. While each person has a locker, the space is too small to store all their belongings. This means the fishers must pile the rest of their items on the bed, making their sleeping space even more cramped. The small vessel lacks a shower room, so bathing has to be done on the deck. Fishers first use seawater to wash and then rinse off with fresh water. Reyne hopes for improved shower facilities and an increase in freshwater storage on small boats. Muhamad has worked on both CT4 and CT3 vessels in Taiwan. The bunk beds on the CT4 were approximately 60 cm wide and 200 cm long, and 16 fishers shared a single bathroom. Resupply occurred only once every 10 months when the vessel docked. On one of his assignments, the second captain of the C4 restricted cooking in the kitchen to one pot of white rice per day, with other meals consisting of porridge (rice gruel). The CT3, a smaller vessel, operated from Donggang and Xiaoliuqiu to Thailand for tuna fishing. It docked for resupply every 2 to 3 months, with ten crew members onboard. Living spaces were equally cramped. One unique experience Muhamad shared was working from 2014 to 2016 on small inshore trawlers under domestic employment in Nanfang’ao. These vessels operated in groups of three during fishing trips, with a combined crew of 22 people. Muhamad once appealed to the local fishery association to provide onshore housing for fishers, as he knew friends who had accidents while living on their vessels during typhoons. In terms of meals, life was more flexible. As the vessel’s cook, Muhamad was able to prepare traditional homecooked meals. Muhamad worked on inshore and coastal fishing vessels in South Korea from 2017 to 2020. The 150-ton vessel accommodated 14 crew 42