China's Ocean Fishing Fleet

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Chuin-Wei Yap and Sameer Mohindru, China's Hunger for Fish Upsets Seas;  
Reach of massive fleet cuts into stock, tests ties on opposite side of the world. Wall Street Journal, Dec 28, 2012.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 05041179985354.html
("Beijing has big plans for expanding its fishing armada to feed that appetite, aiming to increase its long-range fishing fleet by 16% by the end of 2015 to about 2,300 ships compared with 2010. By comparison, the US distant-waters fishing fleet totals around 200 ships")

Note: The left panel (whose heading is Fisheries Production) of the graphic include an asterisk that says "includes fishing and fish farming."