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CHINA'S “INSATIABLE APPETITE” FOR SEAFOOD IS STRAINING SOUTH AMERICA'S RESOURCES

Friday, January 11th 2019 - 08:48 UTC
Full article


Juan Carlos Sueiro, Oceana director for Peru told Dialogo that Peru and
Argentina saw ”the largest congregation of these (Chinese) vessels in the
world.”
Oceana already identified Chinese fishing vessels “entering into Peruvian waters
without a license or with duplicated ID,” Sueiro said.

China's “insatiable appetite” for seafood is straining the limited abilities of
South American countries to enforce their maritime boundaries, according to an
article in Dialogo, a website run by US Southern Command. Countries on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts have been affected, and most of the illicit fishing
activity in those areas is done by Chinese vessels.

Juan Carlos Sueiro, fisheries director for Peru at the ocean conservation and
advocacy organization Oceana, told Dialogo that Peru and Argentina saw “the
largest congregation of these vessels in the world.”

“It's not that they can't fish in international waters, but their close presence
generates controversy. For example, Oceana already identified vessels entering
into Peruvian waters without a license or with duplicated ID,” Sueiro said.

“Refrigerated fishing vessels can be found in international waters to transfer
their captures, fuel, and supplies,” he said, adding that transshipment
activity, which can launder profits from illegal fishing, had also been
detected.

Officials and experts have said rising demand for fish and increased competition
over dwindling stocks could spark new conflicts. Many of them have pointed
specifically to China. Fishing stocks around China have shrunken dramatically.
But Beijing has expanded its distant-ocean fishing fleet, and those vessels have
been involved in disputes as far afield as Argentina — where the coast guard has
fired at and sunk them — and in Africa, where Chinese firms are building
fish-processing facilities.

In a September 2017 article, retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis said that
Beijing was spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to subsidize its
long-range fishing fleet and that its coast guard often escorts those ships
while they fish illegally.

“As such, the Chinese government is directly enabling and militarizing the
worldwide robbing of ocean resources,” they said. In September 2018, US Coast
Guard Cmdr. Kate Higgins-Bloom wrote that “the odds that a squabble over fishing
rights could turn into a major armed conflict are rising.”

Countries overplaying their hands with fishing and fisheries enforcement in
contested waters and increasingly aggressive responses to illegal fishing are
two ways that conflict could develop,Higgins-Bloom wrote. She added that
“political leaders of rising powers will feel enormous pressure to secure the
resources their citizens demand — even if it means violating international norms
and rules.”

Indonesia has blown up boats caught fishing illegally, including a Chinese
vessel, and the country's fisheries minister has said what Chinese fishing boats
“are doing is not fishing. It is transnational organized crime.”

“There's no need to worry [about conflicts with other nations] as we have
government vessels protecting us,” a Chinese fisherman admitted in September
2017, after the expiration of a fishing ban in the South China Sea.

The Arctic, where retreating ice has increased interest in commercial shipping
and resource extraction, could also become a venue for that competition.

“I think the Chinese are very interested in the potential protein sources, the
fishing stocks,” in the Arctic, Heather Conley, senior vice president for
Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, told Business Insider in late 2018.

Nine countries, including China, and the EU signed an agreement in late 2017
prohibiting commercial fishing in the central Arctic for 16 years to allow study
of the region — a deal meant to ensure there's sufficient information to fish
manageably “when these decisions have to be reached,” Conley said.

“We're seeing anecdotal evidence of fishing stocks traveling north to get to
cooler waters,” Conley added. “China certainly wants to ensure that ... they're
not excluded from” those fishing grounds.
However in South America, “the fight is not easy,” even with cooperation among
countries in the region, Dialogo cautioned in the December article.

“China clearly intends to exploit regional seas, and many species already suffer
the consequences,” the article adds. “Confronting the Chinese voracity for
marine resources requires a regional commitment that can't wait”.


Categories: Economy, Fisheries, Politics, International.
Tags: Antartica, Arctic seafood, China, Chinese vessels, Fisheries, illegal
fishing, Indonesia, Juan Carlos Sueiro, seafood, South America.


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