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In the letter, Ambassador Wang said China exercised strict supervision over its distant water fishing fleets, had "a zero tolerance attitude towards illegal fishing", and respected the sovereign ...
China's quest to become a maritime superpower has turned its massive fishing fleet into a floating militia that actively engages in aggressive, and often illegal, practices at sea.
In February 2020, a Taiwanese-flagged vessel attacked a Honolulu-based longliner in waters just outside of Hawaii, and in the summer a massive fleet of Chinese fishing vessels descended on the ...
China's fishing fleet was being downsized until 2008, when maritime militia funding lead instead to an expansion. This expansion has led to an increase in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. [2] In 2019, the United States issued a warning to China over aggressive and unsafe action by their Coast Guard and maritime militia. [12]
According to Global Fishing Watch “This is the largest known case of illegal fishing perpetrated by a single industrial fleet operating in another nation’s waters.” [40] The decline in the squid stocks as a result of this illegal fishing is also believed to be a contributing factor to the increase in North Korean ghost ships. [41]
The U.S. Coast Guard and Kiribati police boarded two Chinese fishing boats during a patrol against illegal fishing in the Pacific Islands nation's vast exclusive economic zone this month but found ...
China has said the fleet is not doing anything illegal, though Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Aug. 6 that the Chinese fisheries authority would implement a ban on fishing near the ...
Chinese commercial fishermen have engaged in large-scale squid fishing in North Korean waters in violation of U.N. sanctions which prohibit foreign fishing vessels from fishing in North Korean waters. The Chinese squid fishing fleet in North Korean waters has at times numbered up to 800 vessels and has caused a 70% decline in squid stock in ...