Over 800 Chinese vessels found fishing in North Korean waters in 2019

Over 800 Chinese vessels caught Pacific flying squid and other marine resources in North Korean waters last year, likely in violation of U.N. sanctions on foreign fishing adopted following Pyongyang's testing of ballistic missiles, according to officials of organizations looking into the issue.The discovery by Global Fishing Watch and the Outlaw Ocean Project, using satellite data, also suggests that overfishing in the waters has caused a sharp fall in squid catch in neighboring Japan.Global Fishing Watch, an ocean conservation nonprofit group co-founded by Google LLC, which released the ou…READ FULL ARTICLE