China fishing fleet in East Sea threat to int’l law, fish stocks

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Hainan Baosha 001, China's largest factory vessel, has been in the East Sea since May in violation of international law, and threatens to deplete fish stocks belonging to Vietnam and the Philippines
China is violating international law by fishing in waters claimed by other countries while also threatening the East Sea’s biodiversity by deploying a fishing fleet, including its largest factory vessel, that could deplete fish stocks, foreign experts said.

Carlyle Thayer, a Vietnam specialist at the University of New South Wales, Australia, told Thanh Nien that the fleet has only been able to operate in Truong Sa (Spratly) waters due to China’s earlier ban on fishing in the northern waters when it was deployed in May.

There is concern that the Hainan Baosha 001 factory ship would exhaust the fish stocks that belong to Vietnam and the Philippines, a violation of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), he said.

The 32,000-ton ship has four processing plants with 14 production lines and 600 workers to process and freeze its catch. It can process up to 2,100 tons of seafood a day, and put out to sea for nine months at a time.

China’s fishing techniques could lead to the extinction of many marine resources and change the sea environment permanently, Thayer warned.

Youna Lyons and Tara Davenport said in a commentary written for the Singapore-based S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RISS): “The deployment of China’s factory fishing vessel in the South China Sea raises legitimate questions about the basis of China’s claim to fish in the [East Sea].”

“South China Sea: Limits to commercial fishing by claimants,” written by the research fellows at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, has been posted on RISS’s website.

“Even if China (rightly or wrongly) argues that it is entitled to fish in the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) claimed from the Spratlys or Paracels, it must remember that its fishing rights are not unlimited.”
China is supposed to conserve living resources of the EEZ it claimed under UNCLOS, they said, adding that it must also cooperate with other coastal countries in the management, conservation, exploration, and exploitation of the sea's living resources.

The use of China’s factory vessels has the potential to “further threaten the already fragile fish stocks” in the East Sea, they said.

The fishing techniques used can also have a “potentially irreparable effect” on the marine environment, especially bottom trawling, they warned.

Marine biodiversity may also be affected as large driftnets, fixed nets, and purse seiners also generated a large proportion of non-targeted and non-commercial species, they said.

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[SinoChallenger]

Hungry Viets are so jealous.

 

[truthseer]

Vietnamese caring for fish? Stop eating them then if you think they're endangered

 

[Splurgenxs]

WHo cares about nature ,as long as the Chinese can fulfill there shitty food fetishes.

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

WHo cares about nature ,as long as the Chinese can fulfill there shitty food fetishes.

I bet you won't say that about Americans eating the holy creature of india.

 

[Splurgenxs]

I bet you won't say that about Americans eating the holy creature of india.

Due u breed sharks? OR maintain a farm? is the resource replenishable?

well not ur fault , Chinese logic...ive started to understand it bit by bit....No matter how idiotic it may sound

and fyi im atheist...so lame rhetoric dun work as far as im concerned.Just ends up flaunting the ever popular chines deflecting skills.lol

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

Due u breed sharks? OR maintain a farm? is the resource replenishable?

well not ur fault , Chinese logic...ive started to understand it bit by bit....No matter how idiotic it may sound

And how do you feel about Japanese logic and their whale hunting?

 

[Splurgenxs]

And how do you feel about Japanese logic and their whale hunting?

Interesting fact ,i wus gona post in favor of China by quoting how Japanese almost drove the sperm Wales into extension ,and China should act responsibly yada yada. When i came upon the Chinese BS.

I always though the shark fin thing to be SKoran for some reason.lol

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

and fyi im atheist...so lame rhetoric dun work as far as im concerned.Just ends up flaunting the ever popular chines deflecting skills.lol

And how do you know I eat shark fin soup? (I never ate shark fin soup) Exactly, you don't. Indians like yourself take every opportunity to show your hatred huh?

 

[Splurgenxs]

And how do you know I eat shark fin soup? (I never ate shark fin soup) Exactly, you don't. Indians like yourself take every opportunity to show your hatred huh?

Lol well as long as u and other Chinese feel the practice is wrong...what bothers people like me is the rampant desensitization people usual go through performing religious or cultural bull crap.

as long as people know what the right thing to do is.

 

[LetsGetRowdy]

Lol well as long as u and other Chinese feel the practice is wrong...what bothers people like me is the rampant desensitization people usual go through performing religious or cultural bull crap.

as long as people know what the right thing to do is.

Well, the problem is acknowledged and there are plans to ban it.

China bans shark fin soup - FT.com