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I hear so many negative things about Chinese fishing fleets. When I was in Africa, I was shown how the chinese ships would be stuck in drydock because they nee
by jvanderbot 2y ago
I hear so many negative things about Chinese fishing fleets. When I was in Africa, I was shown how the chinese ships would be stuck in drydock because they needed repairs or fuel and no locals would sell to them.
But the government is cozy so they are allowed to continue. In some cities, the land is literally sold to the Chinese government in exchange for funds to pad the coffers, or nominal "services" like removing piles of dirt on the land from mining activities.
It's mad neo-colonialism. Instead of armies, you just buy leaders.
- pif 2y ago> chinese ships would be stuck in drydock because they needed repairs or fuel and no locals would sell to them. Why do locals refuse business with them?
- ceejayoz 2y agoBecause they're killing the locals' livelihoods via overfishing. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/04/11/chinas-fishing-fleet-is-causing-havoc-off-africas-coasts https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/04/11/... (https://archive.is/0aDEg https://archive.is/0aDEg)
- jvanderbot 2y agoTL;DR: > For the next 20 hours, on a typical day, the bleary-eyed crew would be hauling up fishing nets. If sharks got entangled they would hack off their fins, tossing the mutilated creatures back into the water to die. When dolphins were ensnared, the captain shot them, cut out their teeth and bartered them with passing ships in return for whisky.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThis bit was more what I focused on: > Illegal fishing is also harming local fishermen. Chinese vessels routinely fish in waters close to the shoreline reserved by law for small-scale local fishers. According to the EJF, Chinese trawlers in Mozambique often line their nets with a fine mesh, allowing them to catch smaller fish usually targeted only by locals. They have also been known to intimidate the local fishermen, ripping their nets and hounding them out of their usual fishing grounds. The volume of fish caught by small-scale fishers in Mozambique has slumped by 30% over the past 25 years.
- jvanderbot 2y agoI've also read that they routinely turn of ATS/AIS to enter territorial waters undetected. Not directly a citation, but here's a supporting writeup of decent quality: https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/china-illegal-fishing-fleet/ https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/china-illegal-fishing-fleet...
- throwaway48476 2y agoThe outlaw ocean project does a lot of reporting on the depravity of the Chinese fishing fleet.
- hulitu 2y ago[flagged]
- buildsjets 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...