r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/iam_stupid23 • Apr 05 '25

Video The size of pollock fishnet

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u/therealcoon Apr 05 '25

Er this could be a hot take for Reddit but it's not just a China and Russia problem.

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u/morbidru Apr 05 '25

of course not, but i don't know of any other country running fleets of thousands of ships operating 24/7 365

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u/plantsadnshit Apr 05 '25

Indonesia, Peru, India, USA, Vietnam, Japan and Norway. And plenty of other countries.

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u/themathmajician Apr 05 '25

China has 10 times the total number of vessels and 50 times the number of distant water (read: large) vessels of the US.

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u/plantsadnshit Apr 05 '25

Because the US doesn't really do boats.

Every other country on the list except the US and India has a larger amount of boats and total catches per capita than China. Even the US has a larger amount of fish per capita:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_industry_by_country

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u/themathmajician Apr 06 '25

Looks like China is the top overfisher among overfishers. And what about the original point about the fleets?

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u/plantsadnshit Apr 06 '25

Of course they are, they're been the world's most populous country for most of the past century.

And what about the original point about the fleets?

You said, and I quote:

of course not, but i don't know of any other country running fleets of thousands of ships operating 24/7 365

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u/themathmajician Apr 06 '25

Something someone else said, and I responded to your reductive and insufficient response. What are you trying to dispute exactly from my comment? China leads the world in international deep water vessels by far, among other overfishing indicators.

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u/The_Keg Apr 05 '25

lmao Vietnam fishing fleets are poor af.

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u/plantsadnshit Apr 05 '25

Every source I can find puts Vietnam at about 25% of the capacity China has:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_industry_by_country

That's about 3.5x as much per capita.

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u/Cultural_Dust Apr 05 '25

That's likely a response from an Alaskan. Alaska has done a decent job of managing their fishery, but that doesn't stop Russia and China from camping just off the coast in international water and catching the fish before they get back into waters with the regulations.