This story is a product of an NBC News investigation in collaboration with The Outlaw Ocean Project, a nonprofit journalism organization. Joshua Farinella had been working in the seafood industry for eight years when he received an exotic job offer too lucrative to pass up — managing a shrimp factory in southern India. The salary: $300,000, more than double what he was making previously. “I packed up two suitcases and moved 8,000 miles away,” said Farinella, 45, of Pittston, Pennsylvania.
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