Atlantic naval territory of Guinea-Bissau. The 44 year-old second engineer of the turbine, Jin, is on deck brushing his teeth.

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22日早上7点，大西洋几内亚比绍海域。44岁的金轮机二副正在甲板上刷牙。这艘渔船于当地时间7月20日出发，在航行一整天后才能到达适合捕捞的海域。随着渔业资源的减少，不论手工渔船还是工业渔船都要去离海岸线越来越远的地方作业，这已经成为包括非洲在内的全球捕捞业的常态。