Grainy video footage of a slaughter committed in broad daylight, discovered on a lost phone, led to the arrest and conviction of a Chinese sea captain, with the case drawing attention to widespread lawlessness on the oceans and authorities’ inability and reluctance to intervene.
China is said to be the world’s worst offender when it comes to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, a position it could not maintain without hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies handed to it by Beijing.