Almost 80% of China’s seafood imports are processed and reexported at a large scale to other markets, a new SciencePolicyForum estimates.
). Yet, two features of global seafood trade hamper efforts to promote sustainability. First, the recent practice of importing seafood, processing it, and then exporting it at a large scale complicates tracing seafood from the water to the plate and enables mislabeling .
Second, reexports can exacerbate problems stemming from distant-water fishing , i.e., fish caught in international waters and other countries’ economic zones. DWF obscures the distinction between domestic and imported seafood and is implicated in illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and other unsustainable practices (
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