China is destroying the world's fishing ecosystem: Not content with overfishing their own coastline, China has now turned to pirate fishing in the territorial waters of less powerful nations

Not content with overfishing its own coastline in a non-sustainable way, China has now turned to unethical pirate fishing in the territorial waters of less powerful nations around the world. Chinese fishermen turn off their GPS transponders that can be traced electronically, send out false electronic signals, violate U.N. maritime law, enter the sovereign fishing territory of foreign nations, illegally fish with slave-like labor, and then escape to international waters with their catch. Some fishing fleets are so large that they can be seen from space.

For China, world fishing is now like the wild west, with a value in billions of dollars annually. The Chinese have an insatiable appetite for seafood, and their population is about 1.4 billion people. They are even risking entering the territorial waters of the U.S. in Hawaii. Guam and American Samoa may be next. Fishing in pristine North Western Australia is done not only by China, but by Indonesia as well, and Australia recently sank fifteen Chinese fishing vessels and chased off many others.

The Chinese fish unethically with technologically advanced techniques such as big ocean bed fishing nets, which scoop up most of the sea life and leave the area a devastated sea bed desert with little hope of regeneration for future sea life. They use high-intensity stadium lights to attract squid and other sea life before they scoop them up for storage, and they transport the catch in refrigerated ships. Hundreds of fishing boats are supplied with fuel from a tanker so they don't have to return home to refuel for up to two years and often operate 24/7.

THEY ARE EVERYWHERE !!

The Chinese fish in poorly patrolled coastal areas like Western Africa and South America. They returned a second time to fish in the pristine diverse waters of the Galapagos Islands, thus doing irreparable damage to the wide diversity of rare species in the area. They have returned to the coastal waters of Argentina many times until finally the U.S. Navy tried to help Argentina and sank 300 fishing boats as punishment for illegal fishing, since the CCP doesn't fine its fishermen for violating international maritime law. The Argentine Coast Guard has also sunk illegal Chinese fishing ships.

Biggest mistake America made was not making our own toys and hiring the chicoms for slave labor.

Now we are broke and the SOBs own our government.

Their bought politicians will tell us to conserve resources and not pollute while the chicoms continue to sh** on the planet with impunity.

Commercial fishing isn’t sport for any commercial fishing operation. Waste fish are usually tossed overboard

I take the back straps, hind quarters, shoulders and shanks. I usually save the shanks for the dogs. But I eat most of the deer and cook up the scraps and connective tissues and silver skin for the pets.

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