Category: Fishing

China Responds to Mounting Concerns Over Huge Fishing Fleet Massing Outside of Chilean Waters

The Chinese embassy in Chile issued a statement on Saturday that tried to allay concerns that an armada of Chinese fishing trawlers was illegally operating in the South American country's waters. The accusations that "Chinese fishing vessels evade supervision and engage in ...

Vietnam Slams China’s Fishing Ban in Disputed Waters as Illegal

Vietnam has formally protested China’s latest imposition of an annual fishing ban in the South China Sea, which Vietnam refers to as the East Sea. The country states that the unilateral move violates its sovereignty and contravenes international ...

China’s Tuna Fishing Fleet Used North Korean Forced Labor, Violating U.N. Sanctions: Report

A fleet of Chinese distant-water tuna fishing fleet allegedly used North Korean forced laborers between 2019 and 2024, violating United Nations sanctions and exposing major loopholes in global seafood supply chains, according to a report released Monday by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).

Cook Islands Signs Deal for Closer Ties With China

The Cook Islands says it has signed a deal to expand relations with China, stressing that the accord does not impinge on ties with former colonial power New Zealand. Prime Minister Mark Brown said he signed an "action plan for the ...

Philippines Recovers Suspected Chinese Submarine Drone

A submarine drone suspected to be from China was recovered in waters off the central Philippines, police said on Thursday, warning of "potential national security implications." Three fishermen found the drone on Monday around nine kilometers off the coast of San ...

Analysis from Cobus van Staden

The Pain of Un-Polarity

“THE G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!”
This post by U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week may end up leaving a more lasting mark than the actual summit he attended.

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A Fight for Food and Sovereignty: How the South China Sea Crisis Impacts Filipino Fishermen 

Part of the eastern South China Sea, known in the Philippines as the West Philippine Sea, represents not only a geopolitical flashpoint but also a lifeline for millions of Filipinos. Beneath the heated rhetoric of international diplomacy lies a struggle far closer to home, one that pits ...

Palau President Says China Flouting Its Ocean Boundaries

Palau's president has accused China of flouting the Pacific nation's maritime borders, raising concerns about research vessels lurking "uninvited" within its waters. "We keep on raising flags and complaining about it, but they keep on sending them," said President Surangel Whipps ...

Peruvian Police Seize 1.3 Tons of Shark Fins

Peruvian authorities said Monday they had seized about 1.3 U.S. tons of illegally harvested shark fins, a delicacy in some Asian countries that has placed the predatory creatures at grave risk. The discovery was made at the warehouse of an export ...

Off Ecuador’s Galapagos, a Former Chinese Shark-Poaching Ship’s New Mission

By Enrique Ortiz When Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many of them threatened species like hammerhead and thresher sharks.

China Protests Illegal Fishing Accusations

China is furiously protesting claims that its distant water fishing fleets are involved in rampant illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in waters as far away as South America. This follows a report by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association ...

South China Sea’s Fish Stocks Are Running Low. China’s Fishing Ban Isn’t Helping

The South China Sea punches well above its size in terms of marine biodiversity. The semi-enclosed sea, which spans over three million kilometers, is home to 8,600 different types of marine plants and animals including tuna and mackerel, grouper, herring, and crab, and seven out ...

What Happened to Illegal Fishing Whistleblower Emmanuel Essien?

The Ghanaian news outlet GhanaWeb recently published an investigative report about the purported disappearance of Emmanuel Essien, an official for the Ghanaian Fisheries Commission. He was reportedly last seen aboard a Chinese fishing vessel Meng Xin 15 on July 5, 2019. Two ...
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