Opinion

China is the pariah of the seas

“They deplete fish stocks. They violate maritime laws. They harm local economies across the globe.” China’s fishing is “mostly a middle finger from the Chinese Communist Party to neighboring and ...
On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an ...
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung has vowed to seize "enormous amounts of money" from crews caught fishing illegally.
China’s aggressive, sometimes illegal fishing practices are the latest source of conflict with the United States. China has the world’s largest fishing fleet. Beijing claims to send around 2,600 ...
Authorities in Taipei have demanded that Beijing release a boat and its five crew members, who are being held in custody after being caught allegedly breaking a fishing moratorium. China’s Coast Guard ...
This summer, as China fired missiles into the sea off Taiwan to protest House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, a much different kind of geopolitical standoff was taking shape in another ...
“Reports of 300+ Chinese vessels near the Galapagos disabling tracking systems, changing ship names, and leaving marine debris are deeply troubling. We again call on the PRC [People’s Republic of ...
China has spent decades overfishing its waters and decimating its sea life. Now, with nowhere left to go, the country’s massive fishing fleet has pushed itself into international waters and at times ...
A nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation has raised concerns that China’s recent fishing ban amounts to little more than a PR stunt since the country allegedly doesn’t fish much in the recently ...
Catch-and-release fishing using artificial bait - a new style of angling - is steadily gaining traction among China's younger generation. According to a recent report by CCTV News, China has an angler ...
A World War I-era warhead and a dead blacktip shark attached to a metal hook are just some of the things magnet fishers have retrieved around the U.S. since the hobby spiked in popularity following ...