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China's 300-mile fishing fleet which is visible from SPACE and hoovers up all sea life is decimating endangered species - and plastic waste thrown overboard is polluting the shores of Darwin's Galapagos Islands, scientists warn
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 1, 2020 | Jonathan Bucks

Posted on 08/02/2020 4:53:54 AM PDT by C19fan

Stretching for miles across the horizon, a vast armada of Chinese fishing boats trawl the pristine waters close to the Galapagos Islands.

Ostensibly fishing squid, the real target for the 265-strong fleet are sharks to serve the appetite for expensive fin soup, costing up to £350 a bowl, sold in markets across China and Hong Kong.

Night and day, the vessels – many the size of a football pitch – ransack the seabed, scooping up not only whale and hammerhead sharks but other species including turtles and birds.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: algore; birds; chicoms; china; finsoup; fisheries; fishing; galapagos; hammerheadshark; hongkong; jonathanbucks; philippines; rodrigoduterte; sharks; southchinasea; squid; turtles; whaleshark
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1 posted on 08/02/2020 4:53:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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The US and EU should ban all Chinese related seafood imports.


2 posted on 08/02/2020 4:57:49 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Where’s the UN on this atrocity??

Oh, yeah....they’ve been infiltrated by the CCP, so they turn a blind eye, on this...and every other crime/infraction committed by the ChiComs.


3 posted on 08/02/2020 5:01:04 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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China is hungry - the Chinese will eat: anything with four legs, except furniture; anything that swims, excerpt a boat, anything that flies, except a plane.

Picking on Ecuador is par for them - the defenseless are fair game, the engendered are tasty and profitable - so why spare that rich unprotected resource?


4 posted on 08/02/2020 5:02:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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China and Indonesia are responsible for approx. 34 percent of the plastic pollution in the ocean....


5 posted on 08/02/2020 5:10:35 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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I would suspect this issue as China just lost millions of cropland to flooding.

There’s a lot going on in China we just simply do not know about.


6 posted on 08/02/2020 5:15:58 AM PDT by EBH (Cancel the DNC Party)
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"Where’s the UN on this atrocity?"

You mean the United Nations, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Red China?
That UN?

7 posted on 08/02/2020 5:16:31 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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That's what I said, in my post. 🙄🙃
8 posted on 08/02/2020 5:20:53 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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Oh, hell.The Chinese are NOT WHITE so they can do what they want.


9 posted on 08/02/2020 5:44:14 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Hiden Biden is Outta Time)
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Haha you got that right


10 posted on 08/02/2020 5:47:16 AM PDT by pangaea6
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To: C19fan

Sink all those ships. Ban Chinese fish imports from the U.S.


11 posted on 08/02/2020 5:51:57 AM PDT by EinNYC
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“Where’s the UN on this atrocity??”

Busy trying to take down the US.


12 posted on 08/02/2020 5:52:12 AM PDT by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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Just wait till the 3 Gorges Dam breaks. They will be vacuuming up everything on land too. They have a lot of people to feed.


13 posted on 08/02/2020 6:03:10 AM PDT by oldasrocks
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Where is Al Gore?

He couldn’t care less about pollution if China is doing it....


14 posted on 08/02/2020 6:06:16 AM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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Exactly.

China is facing a food crisis of dare I say it...Biblical proportions.

If that happens I have a bad feeling the chickens we send them for processing and return to the US, won’t be returned.


15 posted on 08/02/2020 6:10:27 AM PDT by EBH (Cancel the DNC Party)
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Well, perhaps if there were enforceable property rights with respect to fishing in specific areas of the Oceans. But no, you have the United Nation “Law of the sea treaty” which means the biggest fleet wins.


16 posted on 08/02/2020 6:19:40 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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Ecuador has a small navy. They can ram or threaten to ram those boats Board them and take their catch. It’s a long way from China if they wan to retaliate.


17 posted on 08/02/2020 6:19:56 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Sick of these bastards.


18 posted on 08/02/2020 6:22:47 AM PDT by setter
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“The Ecuadorian government is seeking to pay off its debt with China by giving it the Galapagos...”

This statement gives proper context and a look into how China uses their loans as a weapon.


19 posted on 08/02/2020 6:27:23 AM PDT by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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There’s a lot going on in China we just simply do not know about...

If by we you mean the average guy, you are correct, but with hi rez satellite cameras, ELINT, human assets , and the like I think Trump pretty much kmows what’s happening behind the Bamboo Curtain.


20 posted on 08/02/2020 6:48:30 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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