The Chinese have a voracious appetite for the world's resources...

First 2 Last

Share
Profile

Follow
pints

54,337 Posts.

302

04/08/20

16:31

Post #: 46296521
Share

Originally posted by alonso: ↑

The subject of ocean going fishing fleets competing for diminishing returns is as old as the Cod Wars in Europe, and that goes back a while.
I started a thread recently about China basically decimating the waters off South America but now I hear about an even bigger example of giving the finger to international covenants. This is the case of the Great Fleets of China (and North Korea) vs the poor little rocket propelled squid, a delicacy of several Asian countries which can actually propel itself from the water and through the air for about 30 metres.
Now these squid are attracted to light, so what are the Chinese doing? They arrange their vessels in such a way that they can brightly illuminate an area about the size of a football stadium which pulls in a football crowd of squid.
Factory fishing the world's resources brought to you by your friendly neighnourhood Communist superpower. There seems no end to pillaging by this country. If it's not loan sharking - otherwise known as the BRI - it's plundering the seas.

Expand

The Chinese have a voracious appetite for the world's resources and will continue unabated in their quest to effectively rape and pillage until our entire ecology is denuded.
The current international pushback against the CCP in particular if fully justified as the Chinese continue to demonstrate that they have no regard for normal or legislated international rules !!!
3 Upvote

Reply