·A British watchdog says China’s distant-water squid vessels underreport catches, overfish, harm protected species and subject migrant crews to severe abuse.
·China's distant-water squid fleet, the largest in the world, is facing growing international criticism over accusations that it underreports catches, overfishes the world's oceans and hauls in protected species such as whale sharks.
·A report released this month by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), a British environmental and human rights group, lays out the case in detail, drawing on five years of research and more than 430 interviews with Indonesian and Filipino crew who worked aboard 249 distant-water vessels.
·China reported about 38 percent of the world's squid catch to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2023, but the EJF estimates its real share of squid taken from international waters runs far higher, at 50 to 70 percent.
·The group accuses the fleet of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, known as IUU fishing, across the world's oceans.
