Hang Zhou receives funding from TransOceanic Fishers (European Research Council, Grant No. 802223, 2018) and Changing Work at Sea (SSHRC Insight Grant, # 435-2024-1435, 2024) for this research.

China is using its influence in the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to sway conservation decisions ...

Beijing described the US' designation of China for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, as “a complete political manipulation”. Last week the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

In effect China has been paying fuel subsidies to fishing vessels, based on size and time spent at sea, since 2006, expanding fishing capacity, overfishing and other sins. So, in 2016–2020 ...

BEIJING--China’s coast guard said Saturday its officers ordered a Japanese fishing vessel and several patrol ships to leave waters surrounding tiny Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.

The China Coast Guard is expanding its reach in ... both lenient on North Korea sanctions and reluctant to tackle illegal fishing by its distant water fleet.

A tourist poses with fish caught during the 23rd Ice and Snow Fishing and Hunting Cultural Tourism Festival, which opened on Dec 28 in Songyuan city, Jilin province. [Photo by ZHANG YAO/CHINA NEWS ...

Since the late 2010s, China has shown increasing sensitivity to the environmental and socio-economic impacts of its distant-water fishing (DWF) growth, as well as the reputational harm partly ...

Ice fishing at Chagan Lake dates back to the Liao ... tourism revenue of 1.25 billion yuan ($173.87 million). In December, China relaxed its visa-free transit policy, extending the permitted ...