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China's Fishing Operations Raise Alarms Worldwide - The New York Times

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With its own coastal waters depleted, China has built a global fishing operation unmatched by any other country.

South America Circles show Chinese fishing in 2020 and 2021 . Pacific Ocean Galápagos Islands Ecuador Peru Argentina Atlantic Ocean Rich and ecologically diverse, the waters around the Galápagos Islands have attracted local fishermen for centuries. Now, these waters face a much larger, more rapacious hunter: China. Chinese fishing in ⬤ 2020 and ⬤ 2021 . The Galápagos are part of Ecuador . And yet each year growing numbers of Chinese commercial ships, thousands of miles from home, fish here, at times right on the edge of Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone . The Chinese ships since 2016 have oper

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