The Chinese experience of its shrimp fishery was a painful one, with the fishery characterised by a large fleet, failures of management in dealing with a problem that had grown out of control, and a general lack of regulation that allowed home-made gear to be systematically made more powerful as increased voltages were employed to meet falling catches. All this led to the banning of electrical fishing in China’s Zhejiang Province in 2001 as a measure to allow shrimp stocks in the East China Sea to recover.
Before
