Red Chinese overseas fishing massively under-reported

AFPC China Reform Monitor ^ | 4/19/2013 | Joshua Eisenman, ed.

[bruinbirdman]

China is massively under-reporting its overseas fishing catch according to a study by Canada’s University of British Columbia. From 2000 to 2011, Beijing reported an average overseas catch of 368,000 tons a year to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. According to the report, however, the average catch for 2000-11 was actually 4.6 million tons a year – more than 12 times the reported figure. Of that total, 2.9 million tons of fish a year came from West Africa. “The unreported catch is crippling the artisanal fisheries that help to feed West African populations. It shows the extent of the looting of Africa, where so many people depend on seafood for basic protein,” Daniel Pauly, who led the study, told Nature Magazine. Chinese fishing contracts with African countries are often secret and Chinese companies operate some vessels flying local flags. The researchers estimate that at least 900 Chinese fishing vessels were operating in 93 countries worldwide, 345 alone in West Africa.

[JoeProBono]

[TheBattman]

WHat???? China lying??? No way!!!!

[Olog-hai]

Should have allowed MacArthur to drag Mao and Kim to GTMO in chains back in the 50s.

[Psiman]

Not to worry. There’s plenty of fish in the ocean.

[Secret Agent Man]

you don’t think that it’s possible to overfish something?

tell that to the whales.

why the heck do you think every restaurant and grocery store serves/sells tilapia now?

[Tainan]

One of the big "not-so-secret" "secrets" on Taiwan is that the once rich fishing grounds around the island have been so depleted, and I mean wasted empty, is that Taiwan fishing boats go over to the ports in China - buy fish there - and come back to the island and then sell these fish in the markets and to wholesalers and such.

The Chinese fishing fleet has also devastated the fishing grounds off of Central and South America. Especially the west coast of South America.

Hell, they have pillaged the fishing grounds of the world if you read any of the info about them.

[silverleaf]

locusts gotta do what locusts gotta do

[SgtHooper]

Naah, could never happen. They only eat every living thing under the sun.