China and Overfishing

China is, far and away, the world's biggest offender when it comes to overfishing.

There is overfishing going on at biologically unsustainable levels, meaning that fish are harvested faster than they can reproduce.

Not only is China one of the main offenders when it comes to slavery at sea, but it is also this use of bonded labor that enables the overfishing in which China is engaged.

The degree of overfishing that China is responsible for is almost entirely impossible without a massive labor force working impossible hours for little or no pay.

The PRC sends its fleets out to North Korean fishing waters, which has numerous nefarious effects on international fishing.

The Chinese trawlers overfish the endangered totoaba fish, not because anyone wants to eat it, but because believers in Chinese folk medicine think that the fish's bladder has medicinal properties, a belief that, like most Chinese folk medicine beliefs, is extremely dubious.

The issue is not this, but that China takes from the seas, not some arbitrary amount beyond a supposed "Fair share," but rather more than is sustainable in the truest sense of the word: China takes more from the ocean than can ever possibly replace itself.

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