{"id":110558,"date":"2020-07-28T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/alarm-over-discovery-of-hundreds-of-chinese-fishing-vessels-near-galapagos-islands"},"modified":"2020-07-28T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:50:24","slug":"alarm-over-discovery-of-hundreds-of-chinese-fishing-vessels-near-galapagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/alarm-over-discovery-of-hundreds-of-chinese-fishing-vessels-near-galapagos-islands","title":{"rendered":"Alarm over discovery of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels near Gal\u00e1pagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alarm-over-discovery-of-hundreds-of-chinese-fishing-vessels-near-galapagos-islands2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/galapagos-islands\">G<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/galapagos-islands\">al<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/galapagos-islands\">\u00e1pagos Islands<\/a>, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution.<\/p>\n<p>About 260 ships are currently in international waters just outside a 188-mile wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but their presence has already raised the prospect of serious damage to the delicate marine ecosystem, said a former environment minister, Yolanda Kakabadse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fleet\u2019s size and aggressiveness against marine species is a big threat to the balance of species in the Gal\u00e1pagos,\u201d she told the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador has sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels some 200 miles from the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands, the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution. About 260 ships are currently in international waters just outside a 188-mile wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but their presence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}