China has overfished and dug up the sea bed in the West Philippine sea, harming our fishing industry. But their fishing trawlers have also been busy stealing maritime resources from South America,
but now they are destroying the fishing grounds off of West Africa:
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these reports are not recent.
But Global voices has a report on what is going on recently:
The impact of China's fishing policies on West Africa Large trawlers are destroying the ecosystem in West African ocean
Senegal is one of many countries affected by devastating overfishing due to illegal Chinese fishing vessels. Senegal’s unemployment rate remains high because, according to Greenpeace, an environmental organization working in more than 50 countries in the world, including West and Central Africa, the introduction of mass-scale fishing techniques by Chinese vessels has devastated local fishing industries, leaving many without their livelihoods....
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