Atlantic naval territory of Guinea-Bissau. 44 year old Second Engineer Jin plays on his cellphone in the cabin of the ship. Jin has been working in West Africa since 2008.

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21日晚上接近8点，大西洋几内亚比绍海域。44岁的金先生正在船舱内玩手机，他来自河南，2008年来到西非，是该船的轮机二副。这趟出海，徐船长的船上一共配备了20多名船员，其中七名中国船员，十几名本地船员。尽管这样，人手仍然不够，因此当渔船在捕鱼工作状态内，身为轮机二副的他也需要分白天黑夜两班倒在甲板上帮忙。