Closed Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
19 December, 2016 
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Juvenile Fish in a Fishing Net in Shidao
18 December, 2016 
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Juvenile Puffer Fish in a Fishing Net in Shidao
18 December, 2016 
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Fishermen Sort Fish in Shidao
18 December, 2016 
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Juvenile Fish Overfishing in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Juvenile False Kelpfish in Fishing net in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Worker at a Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Worker at a Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Workers at a Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Dead Sharks in Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Truck in Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Compressed Trash Fish in Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
16 December, 2016 
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Women Fix Fishing Net in Shidao
16 December, 2016 
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Fishermen Prepare Fishing Nets in Shidao
16 December, 2016 
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Chinese Fishing Vessel Offload at Dock in Shidao
16 December, 2016 
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Trash Fish Preprocessing in Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
15 December, 2016 
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Fish Meal Worker at Processing Factory in Shidao
15 December, 2016 
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Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
15 December, 2016 
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Compressed Trash Fish at Fish Meal Factory in Shidao
15 December, 2016 
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Fish Meal Factories in Shidao
17 December, 2016 
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Overfishing of Juvenile Fish in Shidao
16 October, 2014 
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Overfishing of Juvenile Fish in China 

Overfishing of Juvenile Fish in China 

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In December 2016, Greenpeace documented the intense overfishing of juvenile and "trash" fish - fish too young and/or too small for human consumption - in Shandong province, one of the major fishery regions in China. Greenpeace East Asia's investigation estimates that up to one third of China's total annual catch is "trash fish" - that is equivalent to the entire annual catch of Japan.
Overfishing over the past 30 years has destroyed much of the cycle of life in China’s waters. As result there are fewer and fewer mature fish. What’s left are quantities of juvenile fish, called “trash fish” by fishermen. Inedible for humans, the trash fish are processed for use as aquaculture feed. China has the world’s largest aquaculture industry. It consumes more than 7 million of domestic wild fish yearly and that demand is driving intensive fishing of juvenile fish. A vicious cycle causing even more damage to China’s seas. 
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