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03.28.17A Bigger Catch: China’s Fishing Fleet Hunts New Ocean Targets
Financial Times
Seagulls wheel and cry around the Caleta Portales fishing pier in the Chilean port of Valparaíso while sea lions loiter in the waves.
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11.21.16China is No Longer Ruining Their Livelihoods, but These Filipino Fishermen are Not Entirely Grateful
Los Angeles Times
“We cannot forget China’s aggression towards us. They bumped our boats, they fired their water cannons on us"
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08.15.16China Pledges to Cut Size of Its Massive Fishing Fleet Due to Serious Threat to Nation’s Fish Stocks
South China Morning Post
The government said there were practically “no fish” in the coastal East China Sea.
Video
05.28.14
Staying Afloat
In “Staying Afloat: Life on a Disappearing Lake,” Chinese filmmakers Lynn Zhang and Shirley Han Ying train their camera on the people who have been both perpetrators and victims of Lake Baiyangdian’s decline in water supply. They show us not just...
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01.29.14Mass Slaughter of Vulnerable Shark Species in China, Wildlife Group Says
New York Times
600 whale sharks are being slaughtered annually at a factory near Wenzhou for foreign and domestic use.
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05.10.13China Is Plundering The World’s Seas
Quartz
China’s unabated market for pricey fish parts like shark fin and endangered fish bladders is not only hurting the ecosystem, but will also have a negative impact on the world economy.
Environment
05.03.13
Time to End Secrecy Over Chinese Overseas Fishing
from chinadialogue
It is well-known that overseas fishing fleets are more cavalier in terms of respect for laws and regulations than their domestic counterparts. There are innumerable examples from all over the world of fishing with gears that are not part of...
Environment
10.19.12
Overfishing Pushes 80% of Chinese Fishermen Towards Bankruptcy
from chinadialogue
In mid-September, the fishing season got under way as usual in Ningbo, on China’s east coast, after the three-month season when fishing is forbidden. Over 2,000 steel-hulled boats headed out to sea. But, on board, there was little cause for optimism...
Environment
07.18.12China’s Overseas Food Footprint
from chinadialogue
For the last three decades, China’s factories have turned out goods for export markets, while Chinese citizens have paid the environmental price of industrialization in the pollution of their air and water and in the contamination of their land. But...
Environment
06.29.12The Double Life of Dali Lake
from chinadialogue
Every spring, migratory birds start arriving at Dali Lake in Inner Mongolia just as the fish-breeding season gets under way. This has been the time—at least until recently—when herders living around the lake have heard the sounds of firecrackers...
Caixin Media
04.25.12
Watery Grave for Yangtze River Fish
(Beijing)—Fishermen along the banks of the mighty Yangtze River have long spoken of emptier nets and longer waits for a catch.On April 2, an unusual auction held in a downstream city in Jiangsu Province added weight to their bleak reports: A single...