China Estimated to Dramatically Underreport Its Overseas Fishing Catch
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 18:30
in Earth & Climate
It is a whopper of a catch, in more ways than one: China is under-reporting its overseas fishing catch by more than an order of magnitude, according to a study published on 23 March. The problem is particularly acute in the rich fisheries of West Africa, where a lack of transparency in reporting is threatening efforts to evaluate the ecological health of the waters. [More]