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The Status Quo of the Criminal Accountability for Marine Illegal Fishing in China: From the Perspective of Judgment Analysis

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  • Li Feng

    (Faculty of Law, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350117, China)

  • Peipei He

    (Faculty of Law, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350117, China)

  • Chenghui Zheng

    (Fujian Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, Fuzhou 350003, China)

  • Pei Chen

    (Faculty of Law, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350117, China)

Abstract

Over the past few years, China’s marine economy has been vigorously booming, while strong measures have been equally undertaken to ensure superior quality of the marine environment. However, the country is still suffering illegal fishing problems, which hinder the marine ecological environment and fishery resources from reaching sustainable development both internally and globally. To this end, the Chinese government has ratified a series of legal documents to provide the basis for judicial departments to hold individuals and groups responsible for practicing illegal fishing at sea. Although the measures have indeed performed well in some instances, a number of legal obstacles remain to be fixed. In this article, to realize the status quo of the control of maritime illegal fishing in China, all the criminal judgments relevant to illegal fishing at sea from 2014 were collected and analyzed not only qualitatively but also quantitatively, through which the existing problems of accountability for illegal fishing at sea in China were summarized. In addition, a number of related studies were examined and in-depth interviews were organized to clarify the main reasons for these problems and propose some necessary solutions. It is believed that our findings would not only help to improve the control of maritime illegal fishing and boost the marine ecological environment protection in China, but also to establish a possible reference for other countries in the world.

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  • Li Feng & Peipei He & Chenghui Zheng & Pei Chen, 2020. "The Status Quo of the Criminal Accountability for Marine Illegal Fishing in China: From the Perspective of Judgment Analysis," Laws, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-13, October.
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