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> 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?

by pif 2y ago

ceejayoz 2y ago
Because 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 ago
  TL;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 ago
    This 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 ago
      I'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 ago
        The outlaw ocean project does a lot of reporting on the depravity of the Chinese fishing fleet.

> 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?

by 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 ago

Because 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 ago
TL;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 ago
  This 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 ago
    I'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 ago
      The outlaw ocean project does a lot of reporting on the depravity of the Chinese fishing fleet.