Time for China to stop its unsustainable fishing practices: Pompeo
Extending support to Ecuador, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has slammed China for incessantly violating the sovereign rights and jurisdiction of coastal states."It is time for China to stop its unsustainable fishing practices, rule-breaking, and willful environmental degradation of the oceans. We stand with Ecuador and call on Beijing to stop engaging in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing," Pompeo said in a Twitter post.Pompeo's recent remarks came after Western media reported on 260 China-flagged vessels fishing nearing Ecuador's Galapagos marine reserve, which was seen as causing environmental degradationIn a separate statement, the US Department of State said: "The People's Republic of China subsidizes the world's largest commercial fishing fleet, which routinely violat...