The Status Quo of the Criminal Accountability for Marine Illegal Fishing in China: From the Perspective of Judgment Analysis

Li Feng, Peipei He, Chenghui Zheng and Pei Chen
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Li Feng: Faculty of Law, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350117, China
Peipei He: Faculty of Law, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350117, China
Chenghui Zheng: Fujian Provincial Academy of Environmental Science, Fuzhou 350003, China
Pei Chen: Faculty of Law, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350117, China

Laws, 2020, vol. 9, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Over the past few years, China’s marine economy has been vigorously booming, while strong measures have been equally undertaken to ensure superior quality of the marine environment. However, the country is still suffering illegal fishing problems, which hinder the marine ecological environment and fishery resources from reaching sustainable development both internally and globally. To this end, the Chinese government has ratified a series of legal documents to provide the basis for judicial departments to hold individuals and groups responsible for practicing illegal fishing at sea. Although the measures have indeed performed well in some instances, a number of legal obstacles remain to be fixed. In this article, to realize the status quo of the control of maritime illegal fishing in China, all the criminal judgments relevant to illegal fishing at sea from 2014 were collected and analyzed not only qualitatively but also quantitatively, through which the existing problems of accountability for illegal fishing at sea in China were summarized. In addition, a number of related studies were examined and in-depth interviews were organized to clarify the main reasons for these problems and propose some necessary solutions. It is believed that our findings would not only help to improve the control of maritime illegal fishing and boost the marine ecological environment protection in China, but also to establish a possible reference for other countries in the world.

Keywords: marine illegal fishing; criminal accountability; criminal judgments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 E61 E62 F13 F42 F68 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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