Published April 2005 - Updated 2007
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A Twisted Chinese Puzzle Spells Worse News For Global Fish Crisis

World fish numbers now believed to be much lower than previously thought. China has been named as the culprit for distorted figures on world fish stocks.

Analysts say that Chinese officials have been lying about the number of fish being caught in their regions in an attempt to cover up over fishing practices. It turns out that China are catching far fewer fish than they claim, simply because they have over fished their regions. Researchers say this has led the Food and Agriculture Organisation to believe that global fish catches had increased, but in fact they have actually been dwindling due to depleting sea life, caused by overfishing.
In 2007 it was announced that the Yangtze river dolphin in China (Baiji) is now extinct. After a count in 1997 of only 13 sightings, then a detailed hi-tech search by scientists in 2006, which found none remaining at all, this shows to be the next large aquatic mammal to become extinct since the demise of the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s due to over-fishing.

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