China has built the world’s largest fishing fleet, and has raised alarms by over in international and territorial waters. From the
NY Times:
Over the last two decades, China has built the world’s largest deep-water fishing fleet, by far, with nearly 3,000 ships. Having severely depleted stocks in its own coastal waters, China now fishes in any ocean in the world, and on a scale that dwarfs some countries’ entire fleets near their own waters.
The impact is increasingly being felt from the Indian Ocean to the South Pacific, from the coasts of Africa to those off South America — a manifestation on the high seas of China’s global economic might.
Very akin to strip mining, China will destroy eco systems as the violate international treaties and simply take whatever they can. And while The NY Times has great detail, rarely are our leaders asked what they are going to do to prevent China from destroying eco systems. Remember, to Paul Krugman and many in the Biden and Obama administrations, the CCP is a miracle as they get things done, unfettered by questions from the ignorant masses. When has the CCP been confronted publicly regarding their fishing practices?
While there is no evidence offered so far that China is responsible for depleting the crab harvest, it is suspect that Climate Change is the first go to explanation, and as with many who “follow the science”, very little credence is lent to other reasonable explanations. It is extremely odd that the agencies who are supposed to track fish population didn’t spot the trend sooner. Given how heavy censorship is with revelations that go against the narrative that the planet is warming and therefore everything is dying, we need to consider what actions from China are simply ignored, and then the results are conveniently lumped into Climate Change. China has been very destructive in the Indian Ocean, are they at work in Alaska? If the United States is so destructive and must be reined in order to save the planet, why is China, the largest polluter on the planet, not forced to sign the same restrictive treaties, and allowed to destructively empty fishing waters that are not in their own territory? The CCP destroyed their own fishing regions, should they be allowed to spread across the globe to do the same everywhere?
We have had huge fluctuations before with fish population, and moratoriums have been required to allow populations to return to viable levels. But too many times we have had overly zealous activists in public office who refuse to use common sense and stray from the Climate Change narrative. Instead we have seen the answer repeatedly: Americans are destructive, it’s time to pay the piper and your food supply will be reduced. The icing on that bitter cake is that the public “officials” then use the crisis they just created as an excuse to re-engineer food production, and lo and behold, less food is produced. It paves the way for darker things to become entrenched.