Atlantic naval territory of Guinea-Bissau. Zheng and three local sailors clean a freshly-caught shark.

The depletion of China’s domestic fishery resources, which resulted from irresponsible fishing activities in China’s coastal water and poor fishery management, has forced Chinese fishing vessels to travel over tens of thousands miles to find fish in other fishing grounds like the one near West Africa. However, if irresponsible fishing activities are travelling together with the Chinese distant fishing industry and a good regional fisheries management body is still absent, the tragedy that happened in China’s coastal water might be duplicated to other fishing grounds wherever Chinese fishing fleets appear. 

2016年7月23日，大西洋几内亚比绍海域。福远渔127号船上的网师郑辉亮正在清洗捕获的鲨鱼。