Chinese fishing company Yu Yi Industry Co. has landed in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen its first catch made in the waters off Mozambique, Seafood Source reports.
The news website says a Yu Yi fleet of six fishing vessels landed 359 tonnes of fish and shellfish, witnessed by company executives and Chinese Communist Party officials.
The report quotes a Shenzhen party official as saying: “We will reform our local industrial companies by expanding into new promising industries like distant-water fisheries.”
It quotes Yu Yi Chairman Zhang Zhiming as saying China should catch more fish in foreign waters because it is catching fewer fish in its own waters.
Yu Yi has recently signed an agreement with the government in Maputo allowing it to catch fish in Mozambican waters during a five-year period, Seafood Source says.
