Alarm over discovery of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels near Galápagos Islands

Sun, 2 Aug 2020 06:17:29 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/chinese-fishing-vessels-galapagos-islands>

"Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing
fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the
Galápagos Islands, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s
theory of evolution.

About 260 ships are currently in international waters just outside a
188-mile wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but their
presence has already raised the prospect of serious damage to the
delicate marine ecosystem, said a former environment minister, Yolanda
Kakabadse."

Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "the chinese are eating the world, and don’t
give a damn about anyone else…"

Cheers,
        *** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net               Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/                 Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://glasswings.com.au/             Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/               Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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