Search ongoing after Chinese fishing boat sinks in Indian Ocean with crew of 39 missing
A Chinese fishing boat operating in the Indian Ocean has sunk and all 39 crew members on board are missing, state media reported.
The Chinese reports did not identify the exact location of the sinking, just that it occurred in the centre of the vast Indian Ocean that stretches from South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula to east Africa and western Australia. China is believed to operate the world’s largest fishing fleet. Many of them stay at sea for months or even years at a time, supported by Chinese state maritime security agencies and a sprawling network of support vessels.
Chinese squid fishing ships have been documented using wide nets to illegally catch already overfished tuna as part of a surge in unregulated activity in the Indian Ocean, according to a report released in 2021 by a Norway-based watchdog group that highlighted growing concerns about the lack of international co-operation to protect marine species on the high seas.
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