Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "10 Weirdest Creatures in Chile's Newly Protected Seas | National Geographic" video.

  1. MrOodlesnNoodle 'JL' What makes you think I'm American? ;) You saw someone say bad things about China. You immediately assumed it was just political trashtalk because Japan was a US ally. LOL. It's not my bias you're seeing. It's yours. You are obviously Chinese. Want academic sources? Because I can give you tons in support of what I said. Here are some: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/expeditions/the-status-of-fisheries-in-china-how-deep-will-we-have-to-dive-to-find-the-truth/ http://phys.org/news/2015-05-china-illegally-fishing-africa-greenpeace.html https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Fishing%20for%20Answers_0.pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/faf.12032/pdf https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/sais_review/v035/35.1.carolin.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/62848114/superfishing-boat-declared-a-pirate-ship http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-11-19/china-s-illegal-fishing-expeditions-threaten-world-waters http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/campaigns/Defending-Our-Oceans-Hub/Chinese-illegal-fishing-exposed/ Nothing you can say will erase the fact that China is the world's largest source of "Distant Water Fleets" and thus of illegal fishermen. Composed of around 3,400 ships, they fish regularly inside the exclusive economic zones of at least 93 countries. Take special notice of the charts in the paper by Pauly et al. (2014). Japan's fish landings have declined drastically since the 1980s to around 8 million tons as of last reporting in 2010 in the  Northwest Pacific (they import more seafood than they catch). China's on the other hand, has averaged at 20 million tons annually since the 1980s for that region, and it has not dropped. They take more than TWICE that of Japan's catches. In several territorial waters, China catches more fish than the local fishermen. They don't comply with international regulations. They don't respect the laws of the countries they're fishing in. They don't even share any of their fishing data with anyone else. They're only noticed when local authorities catch them redhanded illegally fishing in their waters. And that happens regularly even in countries halfway across the world. The only countries where they do not fish illegally are countries which can stop them. They avoid North America, Europe, and Russia, but they poach blatantly everywhere else.
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  2. +525Lines At least Japan respects sovereignty. The largest number of illegal fishermen are from China. And they have no compunctions harvesting endangered species, even when they're not edible. They use them for traditional medicine.
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  3. MrOodlesnNoodle 'JL' LOL. No one is NOT blaming the Japanese. They're the main reason for the decimation of whale and tuna populations. But you can't deny that the Chinese have the MOST number of illegal fishermen, in terms of the numbers caught by authorities. From New Zealand to South Africa. And they are the center of the illegal trade in endangered species. From sharks to rhinoceros horns to sea turtles. They eat anything, treat everything as an aphrodisiac. The rarer the better. And they have no compunctions about sneaking into other countries' territorial waters. That is FACT. And has nothing to do with politics.
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