Posted on 02/28/2024 11:50:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
China's heavily state subsidized fishing fleet has been trashing South America's ample fishing beds, depleting fish stocks and leaving trash all over the place.
According to a report from Breitbart News, citing EFE:
The persistent threat of an invasive fleet of illegal Chinese fishing ships in Latin American waters is depleting fish stocks and impacting the regional economy, according to a report published on Sunday by the Spanish news agency EFE.
The constant presence of illegal Chinese ships and their consequences to local fauna and economy have generated great concern among regional authorities, who are making efforts to curb the destruction of their respective countries’ natural resources. EFE’s report gathered testimonies from Chilean, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Argentine authorities.
The Breitbart report, taken from EFE. describes how little regard China has for other peoples' waters, dragging big industrial trawling nets through the coastal waters and scooping up absolutely every living thing in the water. edible, non-edible, and lots of waste. Do that a lot, and it doesn't take long for waters to become overfished and barren of life.
The report says that China's targeted countries include Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Ecuador, all famous for their seafood -- and not particularly powerful countries, unlike, say, Brazil. But messing with these countries is disgusting to hear of. Civilization developed on the continent itself through Peru precisely because of its fishing waters, and Ecuador's Galapagos Islands are well known for their unique flora and fauna found nowhere else on earth.
According to the report, this illegal overfishing -- poaching, really -- brings on phenomena like red tides, which kill everything in the water and make coastlines stink with rotting biological matter, as well as leave a trail of economic devastation given that local fishermen cut off from their own fishing grounds.
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China gave Joe Biden a few million to look away at them raking in billions, Biden is a cheap date.
And the South Americans are leaving garbage, human waste and dead humans all up and down the Rio Grande and nobody really GAS.
It not overfishing. Overfishing is when the regs say you can take X amount, but you take X+Y.
The Chinese take everything that enters their nets. Everything, leaving a lifeless desert. This is called rape of the seas.
Not only do the dump their trash, waste fish, and fish parts back, they also dump their raw sewage, turning the water a muddy brown. They do this systematically, then when the resource is gone, they move on to the next location.
Bkmk
Sink them.
IOW, China is treating South America's waters like they treat their own land and water...
Need to sink a few of these ships to send a message
Use their fishing boats for torpedo target practice
It would sure be a shame to see those ships sink.
With everyone on board.
Torpedoes...
bkmk
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