The keywords here are “…the most likely explanation…”.
That’s it, take some hypothesis, suppositions, assumptions, and present it as truth enough to make an article out of it.
This article is stupid and made to attract weak minds and strong minds that were prevented to evolve.
It is not because the “conservationists” are against some optimally efficient way to gather food that is in itself a bad thing. They are not god. They do not know everything. They can be wrong about their most precious belief.
>>> “…what marine researchers now say is the most likely explanation: China is sending a previously invisible armada of industrial boats to illegally fish in North Korean waters,…”
e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-expanding-fishing-fleet-is-depleting-worlds-oceans