That all changed in August 2020 when a satellite picture revealed a Chinese fishing armada circling right next to the border of the Galapagos islands. These were distant water fishers, mainly squid jiggers, approximately 325, fishing night and day between a migratory corridor off Ecuador and the Galapagos islands. They could scoop up anything that crossed their paths leaving nothing behind. And it is all perfectly legal. Unfortunately, there is plenty of illegal fishing as well.