From the WTF!!! Files. Make of this what you will – Is China intentionally stripping the oceans of food – entire eco-systems of fish and lobsters?
From here:
“BY GUILLERMO SAAVEDRA/DIÁLOGO
JUNE 05, 2023
The waters off the coast of Argentina are home to a unique phenomenon — seemingly “floating cities” of fishing vessels that exploit the lack of legislation in international waters to plunder the marine ecosystem. Most are part of China’s vast fishing fleet, which numbers in the hundreds and operate in international waters without any oversight or regulation, abusing legal loopholes to fish.
“From a distance these clusters of lights resemble a sunrise. Up close they look like cities, whose lights are captured from satellites,” Argentine researcher Milko Schvartzman, a marine conservation and illegal fishing expert, told Diálogo on May 22. “Even from space, some of them shine brighter than the city of Lima [Peru].”
Lots more in that article.
Revolver News covered it here:
“This post discusses the “floating cities” that China uses to nab up all the fish and destroy the entire ecosystem. Everyone knows about this, but because of some “loophole” China is allowed to continue, but you can’t use a plastic straw. Do you see the utter stupidity here?”
And references this tweet.
(14) skull💀dweller on Twitter: "Wtf https://t.co/BaI4zfYeQA" / Twitter
Seems incredible and plausible all at the same time.
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Jaw on the floor! Simply devastating and purely evil.
I can believe it. Food for thought - here in the UK of all places it is impossible to buy frozen fish which has not come from China. How many people look at the pack? Not many I bet. Why would we, being a long standing fishing nation and all, we presume it is local fish.. The info is there, hidden in tiny writing in obscure places on the back of the packs. So now I limit myself to locally caught fresh fish from the travelling fishmonger. If nobody bought the other stuff it would soon disappear fron the freezer cabinets. Still, China is such a big population in itself I doubt it would stop the practice.