Name: China's Global Fishing Wrecks Economies and the Ocean
Uploaded: 2021-06-02T15:11:42.000Z
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Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell.

This episode is sponsored by MOVA Globes.

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And whether you get this Black and Silver model...

...or one of the other great world map designs—you can appreciate the beauty of continents and

Ocean life is essential to the ecology of the planet.

Unfortunately, humanity has been destroying the oceans—and one of the big culprits is

No country understands this better than China.

China has fishing vessels spread across the world.

Not just in the South China Sea, but also in Africa and South America.

...on the index of Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated fishing.

This is from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

China is also number one in that its distant-water fishing fleet is by far the largest in the

world—with an estimated 17,000 vessels, according to the British Overseas Development

And at least 183 vessels in China's fleet are suspected of involvement in Illegal, Unreported,

It's extremely hard to track and monitor what China's fishing fleet is doing globally.

They don't fill out mandated log records.

They create fake joint ventures with local boats.

. Or they fly another country's flag—called a “flag of convenience”.

What I'm saying is that the Chinese Communist Party has Fish Pirates.

Actually, in some ways, it's more like a fish mafia.

Because China's commercial fishing in a lot of parts of the world amounts to organized

It dominates fishing off the coast of many developing countries, stripping locals of

The trail of environmental destrustruction in its wake...is just a bonus.

locals have relied on fishing to survive for centuries.

But now, Chinese commercial boats are dominating.

In 2017, the Chinese effectively took over a major port, doubling its capacity so it

You might think, great, Chinese investment is expanding local fishing capacity!

Since 2017, Chinese trawlers have caught more than 60,000 tons of fish a year in the area.

This extreme overfishing depletes the adult fish, so there aren't as many fish born

On top of that, trawlers wreck the sea bed, making it harder to support the ecosystem

Chinese boats in Mozambique have simply pillaged the waters.

Local fisherman are seeing their fish stocks dwindle.

Why is the leadership of Mozambique allowing Chinese ships to do this?

In unrelated news, Mozambique's president has been caught up in a massive corruption

scandal—involving 2 billion dollars that was supposed to pay for a coastal-protection

Ian Urbina , director of The Outlaw Ocean Project , joined a team that was inspecting

potential illegal fishing off the Gambian coast.

It had 7 Chinese officers on board, plus a crew of 39—all Africans, most of them below

deck on a dirty, cramped production line.

The Gambian Navy lieutenant he was with discovered the Chinese ship's fishing log book was

All captains are required to keep records of where they go, how long they work, what

Not having those records makes it harder for scientists to survey fish stocks.

Also in the Gambia, a microbiologist found in 2017 that Golden Lead, a Chinese-owned

fishmeal plant, was dumping waste into this local lagoon.

Which, by the way, is not supposed to be this color.

“The water [in the lagoon] contained double the amount of arsenic and 40 times the amount

of phosphates and nitrates deemed safe.”

Similar problems are happening in neighboring Senegal.

The state-owned China National Fisheries Company “jointly” owns 12 Senegalese-flagged vessels

That suggests China takes home the majority of the profits.

But it's not just about sucking out profit.

It's about illegal activities depleting fish stocks.

And “failing to hold true owners to account prevents the dismantling of networks behind

Chinese companies have manipulated records by using local front companies to get fishing

“Ghanaian law requires that all trawlers operating in its waters are owned by Ghanaians,

but right now there are more than 100 Chinese trawlers plundering waters normally fished

Each Chinese trawler can catch up to 26 tons of fish in a day.

That's 400 times more than a local boat can bring in.

According to the Environmental Justice Foundation, at least 90% of the trawler fleet in Ghana's

This is despite the fact that Ghana forbids foreign ownership of trawlers.

Surely local officials know what's going on.

In unrelated news, Ghana loses 3 billion dollars to corruption each year.

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