China's Global Times punches back against seafood sustainability critiques

Western think tank reports on the fishery sector are ideologically biased and only targeted at China while ignoring transgressions by the Filipino fishing sector, according to the Chinese language edition of the Global Times, a state-run newspaper.The report is based on visits by Global Times staff to fish markets in Manila, where they were offered various coral fish, including grouper, and the endangered Tridacna clam for sale. The Philippines has allowed “barbaric growth” of its fishing fleet due to the country's low-end fishery technology, the “absence of laws and regulations,” and “insufficient law enforcement capacity,” it claimed.China's efforts to sustainably manage South China Sea fisheries are “not always understood and are even distorted by individual countries,” the Global Times said. It also reported, without further elaboration, that the U.S. and the Philippines have sought to fabricate the image of "China as an ecological killer in the South China Sea" ...