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Suspect it is china after the current Galapagos island operation. It turned out it is. Since ancient time ba ...

• EdwardDiego 6y ago
  The Spanish, South Koreans and Taiwanese are masters of illegal fishing also, especially for Patagonian toothfish. But then the illegal fishing in Somali waters (that contributed significantly to the issues of piracy) was a veritable united nations... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00704/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.0070...
  • throwaway0a5e 6y ago
    >Patagonian toothfish. aka "Chilean sea bass" so that upper middle class westerners think it's a striper and don't bother to Google it.
    • mc32 6y ago
      Lots of fish get friendlier marketing names (all the Cods and Basses) Chilean sea bass predates googling.
      • throwaway0a5e 6y ago
        Most fish are marketed under their own name. Halibut, Cod, Flounder, Albacore, Smelt, Sardines, Anchovies, etc. You don't usually have trade names until you start getting into fish that weren't commonly fished for Western consumption until refrigeration plus depletion of fisheries made it possible and profitable to fish things half way around the world or fishing or fish some secondary species that was formerly considered by-catch. At least that's my observation. I've never done a comprehensive survey.