Atlantic naval territory of Guinea-Bissau. Chief Mate Wang is passing cigarettes among the local sailors.

The depletion of China’s domestic fishery resources, which resulted from irresponsible fishing activities in China’s coastal water and poor fishery management, has forced Chinese fishing vessels to travel over tens of thousands miles to find fish in other fishing grounds like the one near West Africa. However, if irresponsible fishing activities are travelling together with the Chinese distant fishing industry and a good regional fisheries management body is still absent, the tragedy that happened in China’s coastal water might be duplicated to other fishing grounds wherever Chinese fishing fleets appear. 

2016年7月25日上午10点，大西洋几内亚比绍海域。王大副正在给船上的本地船员散发香烟。总的来说，中国船员和本地非洲船员相处地还算比较融洽，由于船上常常人手不足，中国船员常需要和本地船员一起完成收网、分拣等体力劳动；虽然语言不通，但在工作中，通过手势和一些关键词，非洲船员还是能够比较准确地了解中国船员表达的意思。但由于饮食和宗教信仰的差异，中国船员和非洲船员几乎不会一起吃饭，船上也安排了2位厨师分别为中非船员准备每天的餐食。