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Chinese Global Fishing Fleet Growing Aggressively, Chinese Fishing Vessel Tries to Ram USCG Cutter James

Having overfished its own coastal waters, China is aggressively deploying a global fishing fleet to exploit fishing grounds thousands of miles from its shores. The New York Times reports that over the last two decades, China has built the world’s largest deep-water fishing fleet, by far, with nearly 3,000 ships. 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.

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