> I'm astonished at how much fishing is going on around Europe. Why would that surprise you? Europe has a long tradition of fishing. And europe's population is

> I'm astonished at how much fishing is going on around Europe. Why would that surprise you? Europe has a long tradition of fishing. And europe's population is 800 million strong. They even had a brief "war" in the north atlantic over fish. http://britishseafishing.co.uk/the-cod-wars/ http://britishseafishing.co.uk/the-cod-wars/ Japan and China are targeted in many fearmongering articles about fishing/whaling/etc because stories about them get traction/reaction. Maybe because of ethnic/racial tension. Who knows. Try "Japan is killing whales" vs "Norway/Iceland is killing whales". or "China is overfishing" vs "Europe is overfishing". The former gets the most reaction/clicks even though the latter outwhales and outfishes the former. The biggest culprit is europe, then us, and then the japanese and then the chinese. It's primarily the europeans and us that are destroying fisheries. Not only that, europe's fishing reach is global due to their colonial heritage. There is a very strong fishing tradition in europe. Nearly wiped out the whales in the 1800s. Wiped out the fish/tuna/etc in the mediterranean and the north atlantic. Then moved over to the US and wiped out our fisheries along our atlantic and alaska. And the regions destroying fisheries along africa are not the chinese, as you see on the news, but it's the europeans by a long shot.