, which has starred in a series of excellent film and television works such as "Titanic", has recently posted on , Twitter , condemning China's deep-sea fishing fleet that will harm the world's fishing resources. It claimed: "In the past twenty years, China has built its deep-sea fishing fleet into thousands, causing China to exhaust its offshore fishing resources. In turn, their fishermen have sailed to the oceans around the world to continue deep-sea fishing. This practice has aroused people's vigilance about the local economy and the sustainable development of marine life. "
is so true as "Little Little Little" said, China's fishing has threatened the sustainable development of the world's fishing industry, or is it a different version of the "China threat theory"?
export volume is the world's largest, "there is no escape from the blame"?
According to the 2022 report on the "State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture" (hereinafter referred to as the report) released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in 2020, the global fishing fishery production was 90.3 million tons, of which 78.8 million tons came from marine waters and 11.5 million tons came from inland waters. It can be said that marine fishing occupies an absolute dominant position.
The total number of fishing boats used for fishing is estimated to be 4.1 million, while the fleet of Asia accounts for about two-thirds of the total number of fishing boats in the world, ranking first among these two-thirds with Chinese fishing boats. And China is currently the world's largest exporter of aquatic animal products, followed by , Norway, and Vietnam, and China's export container volume is even equal to the sum of two or three.
is quoted from the "State of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the World" report
. According to the long-term detection and evaluation of marine fishery resources around the world by the FAO organization, marine fishery resources around the world are in a state of continuous decline. In 2019, the proportion of fishery populations within the biosustainability level fell from 90% in 1974 to 64.4%, of which 57.3% of fishery species have reached the upper limit of sustainable fishing, and only 7.2% are underfished.
Does that mean that from this perspective, China really has to take responsibility for the excessive consumption of world fisheries ?
Quote from the report on "The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture"
The rogue logic of quantity theory, who is the culprit?
From the previous article, it seems that as the world's largest exporter of aquatic animal products, China is indeed responsible for overfishing of marine fish , but we are the largest exporter, but not the largest importer. So where have the fishery resources we exported gone? Also according to relevant data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, EU is the world's largest single import market for fishery resources, while the country is the United States. and the total number of fishing boats worldwide in 2020 decreased by 10% compared with 2015, which is the result of China's efforts to narrow the fleet.
So based on the theory of European and American "elites" that China, as the world's largest fishing and exporting country, should be responsible for the unsustainableness of marine fisheries, without any mention of who will eventually consume all this. This is just like accusing China of being the world's number one in carbon emissions and accusing the Chinese of using chopsticks as a waste of resources, Greta's rogue logic, standing on the commanding heights of morality, pointing at China, exaggerating the "China threat theory", and not talking about our per capita carbon emissions far less than any developed country.
Finally, I would like to advise those "elites" from all walks of life who have high self-esteems, and take care of yourself first when you stand on the moral high ground to condemn China.
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