How do you like this whopper of a fish tale.
China tells the world through the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation that their distant water fishing fleet catch around 368,000 tons of fish annually.
In actual fact say the University of British Columbia who've just completed research into international fishing, China takes about 4.6 million tons, plundering the waters of around ninety countries of their fish resources and about $11.5 billion worth of fish. Nobody really knows how much they take or what arrangements they have with other countries but most of China's catch is taken from the waters around West Africa where so many of that continents poor people depend on their food being harvested from the sea.
China doesn't take all its catch home.
An unspecified amount is sold locally but whatever is going on, China's catch is a huge twelve times larger than they are admitting to.
It's greed on a grand scale.
And greed is destroying our world...
Just north of the city of Cotonou in the Republic of Benin, which as everybody knows, is in West Africa and home to the village of Ganvie.
