Eight journalists from the People's Republic of China will attend the 10th Annual Seafood Summit in Hong Kong as part of an Earth Journalism Network fellowship program taking place in early September. For a closer look at the Fellows, go here to read their bios.
The program, which will be led by Jim Detjen, the founding president of the U.S. Society for Environmental Journalists, aims to boosts coverage of ocean and fisheries issues in Chinese media. Over the seven days of the fellowship, the participating journalists will attend the three-day summit, participate in capacity-building activities focused on the main themes of the international meeting, have contact with high-level members of civil society and academic organizations, and participate in a three-day field trip organized by SeaWeb and focused on the seafood supply chain in China.
As a follow-up to this project, the Earth Journalism Network will begin research for a report on the state of marine journalism in China. This project is being sponsored with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Can China Embrace Sustainable Certification for Seafood?
Zheng Cui - 23-Oct-2012
This story reviews the current status of sustainable seafood certification in China. Why are Chinese companies applying for certificication and what challenges China faces in terms of achieving sustainable aquaculture and fisheries. 中国近海几近无鱼可捕。曾经的四大渔场——渤海、舟山、南海沿岸和北部湾——早已空有其名。 据联合国粮农组织报告《世界渔业和水产养殖状况（2012）》，目前中国的水产品总量中，自然捕捞仅占30%左右。 与自然渔业资源枯竭相伴随，中国在近20年间崛起成为全球水产养殖第一大国。2010年，中国以3673万吨水产养殖产量位居世界第一，并占世界水产养殖总产量的61.4%。但中国水产养殖业呈现小而散格局，恶性竞争严重，水产品安全事件层出不穷。 在中国之外，全球的自然渔业资源也不乐观...
Chinese Need to Eat Fish. But How to Eat Fish Sustainably?
Zheng LI - 23-Oct-2012
If you love the taste of yellow croakers, you should think about this issue: there are too many people but too few fish in the world. Will you eat the last yellow croaker or save some for the next generation? Fish is an excellent source of animal protein and a wide range of essential nutrients and contributed significantly to food security. Some 80% of the world's fish production is used for human consumption. However, the world has such a big appetite for fish that makes overfishing the...
Shark Fishing's Chain of Beneficiaries
zhou zhi - 17-Oct-2012
No matter which part of the shark is ultimately utilized, the sharp decline of shark population is an indisputable fact. As long as there are no limits placed on the market, excessive killing will be continued and sharks will eventually disappear. “Everyone has failed if shark go extinct.” Therefore, for policy makers, the most important way forward is to find a scientific means that facilitates compromise between each stakeholder to protect the shark. 过去的一个月是崔和最郁闷的时刻。因为一段关于“...
A New Way for Fisheries
zhou zhi - 17-Oct-2012
In European and American countries, environmental organizations and fishery industry aren't fighting against each other on the battlefield, but rather partnering for the sustainable development. Environmental groups are becoming involved in fishing quota management, in order to influence policy makers and retailers to restrain fishing enterprises. If Chinese businesses want to successfully bid for foreign fishing licenses, they must comply with those kinds of environmental criteria...
消逝的海洋渔业资源
Yan Wang - 10-Oct-2012
作为全世界最大的水产品出口国和消费国，中国的渔业资源已显著衰竭。与欧美国家在可持续渔业发展方面采取的举措相比，中国表现得动作迟缓。 中国新闻周刊记者/王妍（发自香港、广东） 一年一度的国际海产峰会上月6日至8日在香港举行，这是该论坛自2003年“开坛”以来，首次在亚洲地区召开。峰会旨在推动全球对话与合作，共同建设在环境、社会和经济领域可持续发展的全球海产品市场。 近几十年来，由于海洋渔业资源的持续耗竭，可持续渔业和水产养殖已成为全球关注的议题。在欧美主要国家和地区，一些特殊种类的鱼如鲑鱼、三文鱼等的捕捞已经开始实行严格的配额制度。国际水产品市场也开始采取产品生态标签和认证等措施。 2011年，中国水产品总产量达到5611万吨，水产品出口391万吨，出口额再创新高，达177.9亿美，连续十年居全球首位。身为水产品出口大国，中国同时也是水产品消费的主要国家。香港大学教授薛绮雯引用国际粮农组织的数据显示，2010年，中国向世界提供了35%的水产品（主要是养殖的），同时消费了世界34%的水产品（主要是野生捕捞的）。然而身为水产大国，...
Fisheries Depletion Net Worth
Yan Wang - 17-Sep-2012
In early September, the annual International Seafood Summit, traditionally held in Europe and North America since 2003, chose Hong Kong as its first Asian host venue for its 10th anniversary celebrations. This annual summit is an event that professes to bring together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservationists for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking around the issue of sustainable seafood. Sustainably fisheries has been a global issue for...
保护海洋生物——孩子们也在行动 | Protection of Marine Life - Children are in action too
Sun Yi - 11-Sep-2012
WWF HK office initiated educations of marine life protection among HK's elementary schools and held the "Marine Little Guardians - Shark Protection Art Project", which offered marine life lectures and enabled children to create innovative art works themed shark protection. “大鱼吃小鱼，小鱼吃虾米”这是连小朋友都知道的。在大人们关注全球海洋生物的生存状况时，小朋友们也用自己的行动表达了未来世界主人的想法。 从今年的2月开始，世界自然基金会香港分会就与香港的一些小学联系，在小学生们当中开展了“海洋小护卫——守护鲨鱼艺术计划”活动，目的是向孩子们宣传海洋保护的重要性，鼓励孩子们通过他们极具创意的作品来表达鲨鱼保护的信息。在活动中，主办方举行了两次教师艺术培训工作坊和12场创意学校讲座，...
关注海洋生物的时候到了 | Time for the Marine Life
Sun Yi - 11-Sep-2012
The tenth Summit Discussion Forum summoned stakeholders from every stage of the seafood supply chain to have an overall discussion about the marine environment and fishery industry, especially in terms of the overfishing issue and its derivative ecological problems. 这次我很荣幸地参加了第十届海鲜首脑峰会（Summit Discussion Forum），这是这个峰会第一次在亚洲举行，来自世界各地的500多位海洋专家、政府官员，他们从各自不同的角度，包括从供应商、零售商、政府、消费者、绿色团体等等的角度，阐述了自己不同的见解，告诉我们很多海洋的真相，告诉人们应该怎样去做，如何改善目前的海洋状况以及如何避免部分海洋生物濒临灭绝的悲剧发生。 随着海洋渔业的发展，...
The first two days of the “Real China Aquaculture Experience" Field Trips
Xiangrui Liu - 09-Sep-2012
The first two days of the “Real China” Aquaculture Field Trips has been fruitful. After a delayed arrival, we visited the Huangsha Seafood Wholesale Market in Guangzhou in the evening— after 8 pm. But the market was still busy with buyers in front of shops, which exhibited all kinds of seafood products at their fronts. The field trip delegation members were divided into different groups and observed different shops, inquiring about the prices, etc. The shops were mostly small-scale ones. The...
Summit seeks sustainable future for seafood
Xiangrui Liu - 07-Sep-2012
The 10th International Seafood Summit, currently taking place in Hong Kong, is calling for more efforts to sustain seafood industries in Asia, both marine fishing and aquaculture. The summit is an annual event that brings together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking around the issue of sustainable seafood. Its goal is to foster dialogue and partnerships that lead to a seafood marketplace that is...
Wake Up Dragon!
Zheng LI - 07-Sep-2012
A question came up to my mind recently: why people from the west tried harder to learn and care much more about the fisheries and the sustainability of seafood in China than we Chinese do Frankly speaking, I did not think much over the issues such as overfishing and sustainable seafood until I came here in Hong Kong participating the 10th International Seafood Summit in September 6-8. As a member of the fellowship program for Chinese journalists organized by the Earth...
Who is the culprit of the severely shrinking marine resource?
YAN ZHANG - 06-Sep-2012
It's my second time to go here after I have a smooth flight bounding for HK Tuesday. Franking speaking, before I go to the Seafood Summit, a vast variety of issue related seafood industry confused me. For example ,I particularly wondering how the seafood operation mechanism such as how size ( centimeter ,CM)meshes of the net in various season and region work, as you know, in some special season and region, only the big size mesh can protect the a juvenile fish etc. It's...
When there is No More Wild Yellow Croaker
Yan Wang - 05-Sep-2012
Like most people's view towards the boundless and resourceful ocean, even Thomas Huxley, the then president of Britain's Royal Society once claimed in his 1883 inaugural address to the International Fisheries Exhibition in London that "all the great sea fisheries are inexhaustible". However, since 1990s, fishermen across the world started to notice significant downsizing of wild fish resource in the ocean and the world began to gradually realize that for some parts of the regions, overfishing...
