The report highlighted concerns that China’s fishing fleet, the largest in the world, was associated with labour exploitation and illegal fishing practices. An Indonesian fisherman quoted in the ...

China and Taiwan account for 60 percent of the world's distant-water fishing fleet, with Japan, South Korea and Spain making up another 30 percent. These vessels spend months at sea, far from ...

which concentrates more than 90% of the fishing in international waters. China's proposal is that the fleet limit be established based on the number of vessels and tonnage authorized until ...

The report, published Wednesday, found that a quarter of vessels suspected of abusing workers are flagged to China, whose distant water fleet dominates fishing on the high seas, traditionally ...

The China Coast Guard is expanding its reach ... on North Korea sanctions and reluctant to tackle illegal fishing by its distant water fleet.

With local fish stocks dwindling, China's distant-water fishing fleet—by far the world's largest—has rapidly expanded in recent decades and, by 2020, numbered around 17,000 vessels ...

BEIJING--China’s coast guard said Saturday its officers ordered a Japanese fishing vessel and several patrol ships to leave waters surrounding tiny Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.

China is intensely developing a fleet of special barges that could be used for an assault on Taiwan. Newly observed units at the Guangzhou shipyard have long road bridges, suggesting their ...

fishing, a compliance ranking for DWF companies and revisions to China’s DWF regulations. While Fujian appeared to adhere to Beijing’s policy to limit fleet growth, it shifted efforts to ...

A simulated battle by the team, set in the western Pacific, just a few hundred kilometres east of Taiwan, saw a Type 055 destroyer confront an advancing US naval fleet. China’s Type 055 is one ...