The draft law also proposes giving ports the authority to inspect foreign vessels and deny entry to those suspected of involvement in IUU fishing. Zhou Wei, head of the oceans programme at Greenpeace ...

Wei has the enviable profession of being a full-time angler with Team Seahawk for the last six years. His job is to go fishing almost every day, testing prototype fishing lines, reels, rods ...

China and Taiwan account for 60 percent of the world's distant-water fishing fleet, with Japan, South Korea and Spain making up another 30 percent. These vessels spend months at sea, far from ...