How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans


Photograph: © SAF – Coastal Care.

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After exhausting areas close to home, China’s vast fishing fleet has moved into the waters of other nations, depleting fish stocks. More than seafood is at stake, as China looks to assert itself on the seas and further its geo-political ambitions, from East Asia to Latin America…

Read Full Article, Yale E360 (08-17-2020)

Troubled Waters; UCSB Current (08-01-2018)
UCSB scientists find that wealthy nations are responsible for almost all of trackable industrial fishing across the global oceans…

Overfishing is as big a threat to humanity as it is to our oceans; Guardian UK (02-16-2016)

Official fish trade ‘hugely underestimates’ global catches; Science Daily (10-09-2017)
Conservation of dwindling fish stocks is being severely hampered by poor controls on global trade, according to new research…

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