Claims of Chinese pressure on Fiji's fish stocks backed up | Pacific Beat

Recently on Pacific Beat, a traditional Fijian chief, the Tui Cakau, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu from Taveuni on the country's second main island of Vanua Levu, claimed that Chinese businessmen are paying local people for fish, clams, beche de mer and anything else from the sea, and this was dangerously depleting local inshore stocks.

Now Graham Southwick, executive chairman of Fiji Fish Marketing Ltd, tells Bruce Hill the same thing is happening to the offshore fisheries as well, and this is not just affecting Fiji.

Presenter: Bruce Hill

Speaker: Graham Southwick, executive chairman of Fiji Fish Marketing Ltd