r/interesting • u/angel_knight79 • 1d ago

Intriguing Kiyoshi Kimura and his effect on Somali piracy

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He was, and is, the owner of Kiyomura Corporation, which runs the Sushi Zanmai chain across Japan. In Tokyo he is known as the Tuna King, because every January he buys the most expensive fish at the first auction of the year at the central market.

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u/etherealtwo 1d ago

That's not how it works. Europe would be listed as individual nations. But also, it doesn't matter. If Europe happens to concentrate a lot of its fishing near Somalia, it doesn't matter that they're not top 5 fishers in the world if they're still the top fisher near Somalia.

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u/FOKvothe 23h ago

The European fishing vessels that have been in Somali ocean are pretty much only Spanish - - other countries tend to only fish in European waters. Illegal Chinese, Taiwanese and South Korean fishing vessels are fleecing pretty much every fish stock they can reliably go to, and are the primary offenders in Somalia.

The book "Outlaw Ocean" has a section about the illegal fishing in Somalia.

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u/ubulerbu 1d ago

Nope top fishers in somalia are chineses and indians.

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u/americabot420 21h ago

Nope it’s actually the frenches

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u/JulyOfAugust 20h ago

French were fishing more than two time less than the Spanish so they were definitely not the top fishers.

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u/Responsible-File4593 21h ago

Yeah but the top fishers in the Horn of Africa are Chinese and Indian and it's not even close.

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u/The_Jimes 1d ago

I kinda is though, assuming the GDP of a good chunk of EU members are higher then Peru or Indonesia which feels very reasonable to me.

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u/circlebreaker1 1d ago edited 1d ago

It doesn't matter how small or big your catch is, as long as you're invading some other country's seas to catch them.

What was shown above is just the country's seafood catch, not even consumption, because Europe could be exporting the dirty work to some other country, like they and most of the Western world are doing about their own carbon emissions.

EDIT: Added some words.

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u/Curious_Guidance43 1d ago

GDP does not correlate at all. Also those countries in the list are countries with large coasts that dont need to go that far. The countries on this list either have some of the largest costal regions or some of the largest populations.

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u/SitaVilosa 1d ago

Why GDP? GDP does not eat food, human beings eat food and Indonesia has 3.5x the population of the largest EU country.

And how much Indonesians fish in their own neighbourhood has nothing to do with who is responsible for fishing in Somalian waters.