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What looks like abundance is, in reality, a warning.

Across oceans and even on land stripped of life, China’s fishing and aquaculture expansion is producing millions of tonnes of fish every year. From deep-sea industrial fleets to artificial ponds carved into lifeless terrain, fish are harvested at a scale never seen before in human history.

But this is not a story of food security alone. It is a story of ecological imbalance.

Relentless fishing has emptied natural oceans, destroyed coral systems, and pushed several species to the edge of extinction. To compensate, fish are now being “manufactured” in controlled environments — deserts turned into ponds, ecosystems replaced by machines, antibiotics, and artificial feed. Life is produced, but nature is erased.

The paradox is cruel:
more fish than ever before, yet oceans closer to death.

This silent transformation raises a question the world cannot avoid anymore —
are we feeding humanity, or slowly exhausting the planet that sustains it?

Progress measured only in tonnes may soon cost us oceans measured in loss.