Chinese Fishing Armada Dominates Oceans Worldwide

China now reigns supreme over global fishing by dominating the high seas with more than 6,000 ships, a flotilla more than triple the size of the next largest national fleet, according to a report by the Outlaw Ocean Project. Research by the environmental nonprofit based in Washington, shows more than one-third of the world’s seafood stocks have been overfished, largely because of Beijing’s “industrial-scale efforts” to harvest fish, squid, shrimp, and other shellfish from the world’s oceans. Part of the project’s report reads: “To feed the demand, the proliferation of foreign industrial fishing ships, especially from China, risks collapsing domestic fish stocks of countries in the global south while also jeopardizing local livelihoods and compromising food security....