Ted Cruz on China's distant-water fishing fleet
Ted Cruz is calling out China's distant-water fishing fleet as one of the planet's biggest ecological disasters. Independent reports back him up: the world's largest fleet, heavy illegal fishing, emptied waters, and forced labor. It's not just overfishing,industrial-scale damage with a human cost.
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But you know what you maybe didn't know? That China is responsible for one of the greatest ecological disasters across the globe and a systemic theft in the oceans. And it's something that's called illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. IUU is the acronym. Now, the Chinese Communist Party has a distant water fishing fleet. How big do you think their fleet is that does distant water fishing? In other words, not around China. It's not fishing around China. It's fishing on the other side of the world. How big do you think their fleet is? I mean, 50 ships, 60 ships would be my guess. It is somewhere between 2,000 vessels and 16,000 vessels. Wow. And they engage in: And by the way, the fact we don't know, as you just mentioned, tells you how big the fleet is. It is a massive number. It's engaged in theft, but it's illegal fishing at a scale that constitutes ecocide combined with gross human rights violations.
