Posted on 07/29/2020 8:14:24 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the Galápagos Islands, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
About 260 ships are currently in international waters just outside a 188-mile wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but their presence has already raised the prospect of serious damage to the delicate marine ecosystem, said a former environment minister, Yolanda Kakabadse.
“This fleet’s size and aggressiveness against marine species is a big threat to the balance of species in the Galápagos,” she told the Guardian.
He added that the team would also seek to enforce international agreements that protect migratory species. The Galápagos marine reserve has one of the world’s greatest concentrations of shark species, including endangered whale and hammerhead varieties.
The 2017 incident he referred to was the capture by the Ecuadorean navy within the Galápagos marine reserve of a Chinese vessel. The Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, part of an even larger fleet than the current one, was found to be carrying 300 tonnes of marine wildlife, mostly sharks.
“We were appalled to discover that a massive Chinese industrial fishing fleet is currently off the Galápagos Islands,” said John Hourston, a spokesman for the Blue Planet Society, a NGO which campaigns against overfishing.
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China is possibly behind the disappearance of whole shipwrecks for salvage too.
The Chinese eat dogs. What do they care about a few endangered fish species?
Chinese gotta eat too.
Is this in international waters?
Why isn’t there a huge fleet of American ships there?
Is there nothing these folks don’t screw up, rip off or get involved with?
Who cares about Ecology? The CCP sure as hell doesn't.
Will this help turn liberals against the CCP?
If China thinks they can make a few net passes close to the islands without being caught THEY WILL DO IT!
Ecuadorans do not like people near the Galapagos Islands without permits. It’s a national treasure............
With 100s of vessels this far out, the CCP Navy cannot be far behind to provide cover.
Galápagos are now part of the South China Sea. It’s their fish.
The Chinese will do to the world’s ecology what they’ve done to their own sh!thole.
SINK ALL OF THEM!
Then they should extend their territorial waters out farther, declaring that it is required to protect the islands due to their importance.
The Chicoms are locusts.
Will this help turn liberals against the CCP?
NO, as birds of a feather flock together.
Seize 'em, sink 'em, or surrender.
I hope their damn breaks.
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