South China Sea; Nationalism Replaces Fish

                                              Like in many of the oceans and seas of the world, the South China Sea is treated like a piece of garbage. The fleets of fishing vessels, including trawlers and industrial scale ships, far exceeds the carrying capacity of the South China Sea. Governments are complicit in this mass raping of the South China Sea fish and other resources. Already large zones of the sea have been turned into dead zones. All life is getting pulled from the waters, killing all chances of replenishing fish for future generations.
                                              While the South China Sea is being depleted of its marine life, nationalism is driving the destruction of coral reefs, shoals, and islands that are being destroyed and turned into one country's outposts. This country in the end will be the ruler of a fishless, dead sea.
                                                Unless there is an aggressive drive to protect the seas and oceans with marine zones where fishing is prohibited, and marine life is given the opportunity to replenish itself, nothing will soon be left. Unless there is an aggressive effort to limit the number of industrial scale fishing boats and trawlers, and ensure that fishing catches do not exceed the carrying capacity of the South China Sea or any sea, fishing stocks will be depleted to the points of no return. Unless coral reefs, shoals and islands are protected, nothing will soon be left.
                                                 People need healthy seas and oceans. People need fish and marine life. We can eat fish. We cannot eat nationalism.