Hundreds of ships from China’s distant-water fishing fleet have hoovered up more than 160,000 tonnes of Pacific flying squid, worth more than $560 million, potentially in breach of UN sanctions, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The landmark findings in a Global Fishing Watch report co-authored by an academic at Wollongong University’s Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security shows the haul by Chinese vessels was more than the Japanese and South Korean fishing fleets combined across 2017 and 2018.
