Fishing season in the South China Sea kicks off
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing in Beihai, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Photo by He Jiahai/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows a fishing boat departing for fishing from Longmen port in Qinzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Performers stage a dragon dance in celebration of a new fishing season near Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province, on Aug. 16, 2026. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Longmen port in Qinzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
Fishermen get prepared before departing for fishing at Longmen port in Qinzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 16, 2026. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows a ceremony celebrating a new fishing season at Longmen port in Qinzhou, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Photo by Ao Shuaichang/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Photo by Meng Zhongde/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban. (Photo by Meng Zhongde/Xinhua)
An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows fishing boats departing for fishing from Tanmen port in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan Province. The fishing season of the South China Sea kicked off at noon on Sunday after this summer’s three-and-a-half-month fishing ban.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
