Chinese fishing vessels are going scorched earth and pumping cyanide into contested waters, Philippine fishing authority says - eviltoast
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources on Saturday accused Chinese fishermen of trying to "intentionally destroy" Scarborough Shoal.
  • RestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    9 months ago

    FWIW From the article

    But the Philippine coast guard on Sunday said it hadn’t found any evidence of Chinese fishermen using cyanide and couldn’t confirm the fisheries bureau’s accusation.

    “We don’t have any scientific study or any evidence that would suggest that cyanide fishing in Bajo de Masinloc can be attributed to the Chinese or the Vietnamese fishermen,” GMA News quoted a coast-guard spokesperson, Commodore Jay Tarriela, as saying.

    The Philippines’ fishing industry was known to use cyanide fishing back in the 1960s to capture live fish for aquariums and restaurants, though the practice has become less common. In 2023, a study from the Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation in Cebu, the Philippines, found that some Filipino fishermen still used cyanide in the South China Sea.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      9 months ago

      Yeah this publication, if included in those “hundreds” is a truly great example of bias in reporting.

      It’s not like we aren’t sprayed with propaganda daily too, this joke of an article is a great example of it.