China Expands Global Fishing Fleet

China’s fishing fleet is rapidly expanding as the country emphasizes policies aimed at shoring up food supplies. But as the fleet ranges all over the globe, it is getting criticized for overfishing and coming into confrontation with other countries’ vessels in contested areas such as the South China Sea. China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of fish with around half its seafood production being exported to developed countries; it is also the largest consumer of...

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