The Chinese distant water fishing fleet is comprised of thousands of trawlers working far from Chinese shores, often engaging in illegal fishing from the South Pacific to Western Africa.

China's alleged abuse of the world's oceans was examined in recent studies into its vast fishing fleet, which is accused of destroying maritime ecosystems far from its shores and perpetuating the ...

On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel named the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an ...

On March 14, 2016, in the squid grounds off the coast of Patagonia, a rusty Chinese vessel called the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 10 was fishing illegally, several miles inside Argentine waters. Spotted by an ...

The Philippines is accusing Chinese fishermen of poisoning the ecosystem of the bountiful, but contested, fishing areas in the South China Sea. "These Chinese fishermen use cyanide," Nazario Briguera, ...

The hijacking of a Chinese-owned fishing vessel with up to 18 people on board in the waters off Somalia in November raised concerns about the return of piracy to the Gulf of Aden, where China has vast ...

Authorities in Taipei have demanded that Beijing release a boat and its five crew members, who are being held in custody after being caught allegedly breaking a fishing moratorium. China’s Coast Guard ...