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China’s Distant Water Fishing Industry

At this meeting, two experts will explore the drivers and impacts of China’s distant fishing fleets and the difficulties in regulating multi-national and multi-species fisheries across large ocean areas.

Date & Time

Tuesday
Nov. 5, 2013
9:00am – 11:00am ET

Location

5th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

Cosponsored by China Environment Forum, Environmental Change and Security Program and Africa Program.

China is the world’s largest producer of seafood. As overfishing and maritime territorial disputes pressure coastal waters, China has been expanding its fishing operations to the high seas and into the exclusive economic zones of other countries in places like Africa and Oceania. China’s distant water fishing vessels, outnumbering those of any other country, have been accused of vastly underreporting their catch. With 87 percent of the world’s marine fish stocks fully exploited, overexploited or depleted, China’s role in the sustainable management of global fish stocks is at once an issue of enormous environmental, economic and security implications. China is not the only country involved in illegal, underreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which is difficult to control and poses a major threat to the health of fish stocks and other ocean life.  

At this November 5th Wilson Center meeting, Tabitha Grace Mallory (Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program) will explore the drivers and impacts of China’s distant fishing fleets and Adam Baske (Pew Charitable Trusts Global Tuna Conservation Program) will discuss the difficulties in regulating multi-national and multi-species fisheries across large ocean areas. In particular, this meeting will focus on the challenges related to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing globally, as well as opportunities to engage China and other countries to help protect healthy oceans and sustainable fishing industries.  

Click here to read a research brief recently published by the China Environment Forum on China's distant fishing fleets.

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China Environment Forum

Since 1997, the China Environment Forum's mission has been to forge US-China cooperation on energy, environment, and sustainable development challenges. We play a unique nonpartisan role in creating multi-stakeholder dialogues around these issues.  Read more

Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.  Read more

Africa Program

The Africa Program works to address the most critical issues facing Africa and US-Africa relations, build mutually beneficial US-Africa relations, and enhance knowledge and understanding about Africa in the United States. The Program achieves its mission through in-depth research and analyses, public discussion, working groups, and briefings that bring together policymakers, practitioners, and subject matter experts to analyze and offer practical options for tackling key challenges in Africa and in US-Africa relations.    Read more

Global Risk and Resilience Program

The Global Risk and Resilience Program (GRRP) seeks to support the development of inclusive, resilient networks in local communities facing global change. By providing a platform for sharing lessons, mapping knowledge, and linking people and ideas, GRRP and its affiliated programs empower policymakers, practitioners, and community members to participate in the global dialogue on sustainability and resilience. Empowered communities are better able to develop flexible, diverse, and equitable networks of resilience that can improve their health, preserve their natural resources, and build peace between people in a changing world.  Read more

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