Effort to Protect World’s Oceans Dead in The Water

Chinese fishers overwhelm world fishery

By: Gregory McCann

Chinese fleet set off firecrackers embarking from Fuzhou port (Yohei Kobayakawa)

Last month, the participants at a UN Ocean Conference in Nice, France pledged to protect 30 percent of the world’s oceans by 2030, with some of the largest swaths of marine protected areas slated for the South Pacific, envisioning a plan that “would cover h…