The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat
www.newyorker.com
China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.
  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Nugraha urged him to come home: “You don’t even know how to swim.” Aritonang refused. “There’s no other choice,” he wrote, in a text.

  • ItsPequod [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Be afraid of… Chinese fishing dominance?

    As someone who’s been seeing this “Our coasts are being overfished; and it was the Chinese!” since I’ve been a child, it’s all a bunch of crap, overfishing is a problem but putting it on any one country, especially a country like China who seeks to feed an absolutely massive population, is a convenient scapegoat.