Author(s)

Wu Wei ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Corresponding Author

ABSTRACT

The frequent IUU fishing of the South China Sea countries has seriously violated China's sovereignty and the legitimate fishing right of China's fishermen in the South China Sea. Therefore, it is urgent for China to adopt monitoring and control measures for IUU fishing in the South China Sea. However, the U.S. current involvement in the South China Sea affairs on the pretext of monitoring and combating IUU fishing, trying to confront China by constructing an intelligence sharing mechanism in the vast Indo-Pacific region, which is more harmful than the path that the U.S. adopted before. The reasons held by the U.S. make it more difficult for China to counteraction and reciprocal confrontation, more strict in the intelligence surveillance of China, and more harmful for China's action to defend its sovereign security and safeguarding rights in the South China Sea, whereas the U.S. and the South China Sea states consistently harnessing IUU to speculation. The multilateral targeted mechanism is absent in the South China Sea fisheries, while the bilateral mechanism couldn't comprehensively protect and manage fisheries resources in the South China Sea, be short of legal constrict and have a low level of cooperation. Therefore, it is urgent to promote practical cooperation in fisheries resources. At the same time, the South China Sea fisheries law enforcement faces controversies over the scope, the construction and the character of the subject, the necessity and compatibility of the means, also the problem of the lack of law enforcement capacity. By elaborating on the international law issues involved in the South China Sea fisheries disputation and fisheries management, the analysis focuses on IUU fishing, fisheries management and fisheries law enforcement, then making suggestions on the possible system for the conservation and management of fisheries resources in the South China Sea. China should strengthen its assessment of the hazards and risks of IPMDA, actively work with the regional countries to increase trust and defuse doubts, and promote cooperation in fisheries between countries. Based on enhancing the ability of international region cooperation setting, China should establish a regional fishery cooperation regime led by regional countries.

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CITE THIS PAPER

Wu Wei, Prevention of U.S. Involvement in the South China Sea on the Pretext of Monitoring and Combating IUU Fishing and China's Response. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2023) Vol. 5: 38-43. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2023.050307.

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