Fisheries Fleets Review: Part IV China & QuietAustralasia ExpansionPhotos: (start top, go clockwise): Asia Ready: the Piriou PS 80-1780-1960 Advanced tuna seiner features a helipad and 1780 m2 of storage in brine or dry freeze. (Illustration: Courtesy/© PIRIOU); Vuot Song’s three designs for the Vietnamese market (two tuna long liners and a trawler) (Illustra-tion: Antoine Leporc); and Added Value: Wartsila’s stern trawler for the Australasian market. (Illus-tration: handout)BY WILLIAM STOICHEVSKIChina’s ? eets dispersed in 2016 to ? sh in the world’s economic exclusion zones after a painful, self-imposed ? shing ban that signaled the economic giant’s renewed hunger for wild, shoaling ? sh. Yet, before the year’s mad oceangoing dash, its ? eet modernized, attracted investors and grew by acquisition. In fact, from Darwin in Australia to Dalian in Northeast China, the aim is the same — conserve species, upgrade the ? eet and grow.48 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • OCTOBER 2016MR #10 (42-49).indd 48 10/4/2016 4:25:41 PM