Hong Kong divers fight overfishing with underwater ecology survey

Video by Vivian Lin | AFP April 2021

Better known for its towering skyscrapers than its teeming waters, Hong Kong’s reef fish population is under pressure from waste and overfishing. Now researchers and volunteer divers are joining forces in project '114°E' - the longitudinal coordinates of Hong Kong’s eastern waters - to draw up a ‘fish census’ and push the government to protect the sea.