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Ted Cruz: “Chinese illegal fishing accounted for 44% of global fishing…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Chinese Illegal Fishing Decimates the Oceans, DSA Lunatics Grow Stronger & the DNC is Broke

Published | Video Starts at 02:47

It happens in and around South America, it happens in the Indian Ocean, it happens all over the globe. And the consequence of is subsidized by billions of dollars from the People's Republic of China. Between 2022 and 2024, Chinese illegal fishing accounted for 44% of global fishing all over the world between 2022 and 2024. 44. Nearly half. You just said illegal. So that's outside of their, quote, legal fishing they're doing in and around China. Yes. Measuring at least 110 million hours of fishing in more than 90 countries. (02:47–03:00)

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