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Panel: Chinese fishing fleets' IUU and dual-use activities erode Pacific territories' economies and security
Summary
Witnesses and members said illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and commercial fleets with dual-use capabilities harm island economies, enable surveillance and are used for smuggling and other criminality across the Pacific.
Witnesses and members at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing described how illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by large fleets ' including many China-linked vessels ' has harmed Pacific Island and U.S. territorial economies and can serve as a cover for surveillance, smuggling and other illicit activity.
"Oh, it's devastating," Cleo Pascall, a nonresident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of…
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