Chinese Illegal Fishing Decimates the Oceans, DSA Lunatics Grow Stronger & the DNC is Broke
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Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have you with us wherever you are, listening to us around the country. And Senator, we've got a big show today, including China yet again being accused of not playing by the rules, having a shadow fleet of fishing boats that are, not a few, a lot, that are destroying international waters and hurting so many other countries.
Well, on today's podcast, we're going to talk to you about Chinese communists. We're going to talk to you about American communists. And then we're going to talk to you about the Democratic National Committee. And you will notice there is a thread that connects them all. But let's start with the Chai Cops. Let's start with the Chinese Communist Party. We all know the horrible things they do. We know the murders, the tortures, the concentration camps, the genocide, the lying, the... producing COVID virus and causing massive damage to the world and covering it up. All of those are a given. But you know what you maybe didn't know? That China is responsible for one of the greatest ecological disasters across the globe and a systemic theft in the oceans.
And it's something that's called illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. IUU is the acronym. Now, The Chinese Communist Party has a distant water fishing fleet. How big do you think their fleet is that does distant water fishing? In other words, not around China. It's not fishing around China. It's fishing on the other side of the world. How big do you think their fleet is? I mean, 50 ships, 60 ships would be my guess. It is somewhere between 2,000 vessels and 16,000 vessels. And by the way, the fact we don't know, as you just mentioned, tells you how big the fleet is. It is a massive number. It's engaged in theft, but it's illegal fishing at a scale that constitutes ecocide combined with gross human rights violations.
And so this is an issue I've been involved with a long time and trying to urge the federal government to use the tools we have to stop this massive illegal fishing. By the way, this illegal fishing, it happens in the Gulf of America. It happens in the Atlantic Ocean. It happens all around Africa. It does massive damages to Africa. It happens in and around South America. It happens in the Indian Ocean. It happens all over the globe. And the consequence of it, it is subsidized by billions of dollars from the People's Republic of China. Between 2022 and 2024, Chinese illegal fishing accounted for 44% of global fishing all over the world. 44%, nearly half.
You just said illegal. So that's outside of their, quote, legal fishing they're doing in and around China.
Yes. measuring at least 110 million hours of fishing in more than 90 countries. And by the way, not only do they engage in illegal fishing, they also kill hundreds of critically endangered animals, including sharks, whales, dolphins. They've destroyed tens of thousands of acres of coral reefs. And they use forced laborers. So they've got slave labor that they put on the boats.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:13
2
What is the scope of China’s distant‑water fishing fleet and how widespread is IUU activity?
6:13–8:35
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How does illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by Chinese vessels harm global ecosystems and wildlife?
8:35–20:08
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How are forced labor and human rights abuses linked to China’s fishing operations?
20:08–36:03
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