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Poverty & the Environment: A Grist special series
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Log in or create an account to start a new discussion. Happiness: The Chinese zombie ships of West AfricaPosted by Gail Whale at 4:54 AM on 29 Mar 2006
I read this on the Greenpeace blog and it really shocked me. I do admit that I eat fish sometimes, but I had no idea that I was contributing to this. It seems that Chinese workers not only pay a high price for making Western cloth, but now are used as fishermen, spending years on ships that are almost falling apart.
They are being forced to steal from countries with lesser means. Did you now that the countries in West Africa are the only countries where they eat less fish? Not because they want to but because of the illegal fishing fleets taking advantage of their lack of means of patrolling their seas. And now there just aren't plenty of fish anymore. Where will the fish end up? Often on dinner plates in Europe...
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