Near the Gwadar port in Pakistan’s Balochistan, hundreds of Chinese fishing trawlers posing a threat to the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen in the province.
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The Chinese fleet arrived Gwadar to engage in fishing. The fleet consists of ‘factory ships’, which contain food processing units to preserve fishes.
At the Gwadar port, which belongs to close ally Pakistan, the Chinese catch fishes, which they then process and sell to international markets, thereby depriving local fishermen of their livelihoods.
However, due to interference by the Chinese ships, lakhs of fishermen are on the verge of unemployment and several families will be adversely affected by Chinese trawlers in the port.
Due to the situation, the fishermen would become increasingly dependent on the outside forces for their employment and their livelihoods will be destroyed.
Meanwhile, the presence of Chinese boats is complicating the distribution of fish catches and threatening the survival of fishermen from the Philippines, according to activists.
