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Argentina's coastguard chased and sank a Chinese vessel that it says was fishing illegally in Argentine waters on Monday.
In a statement, the coastguard said one of its vessels had fired warning shots at the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 as it headed for international waters.
The coastguard said it had first tried to raise a response by radio. All 32 crew members were rescued, it said.
Illegal fishing is a common problem in the South Atlantic.
"The vessel was hailed over radio (in Spanish and English) and both visual and audio signals were sent to make contact. However, the vessel turned off its fishing lights and proceeded to flee towards international waters without responding to repeated calls over various frequencies," the coastguard statement said (in Spanish).
"On several occasions, the offending ship performed manoeuvres designed to force a collision with the coastguard, putting at risk not only its own crew but coastguard personnel, who were then ordered to shoot parts of the vessel."
China is the world's largest market for seafood and has the biggest long-distance fishing fleet, currently numbering more than 2,000 vessels, reports say.
In 2012 Argentina captured two Chinese vessels it said had been fishing illegally for squid in its exclusive economic zone. Warning shots were fired.
A lot of it is due to commerce, China sells a lot of fish abroad to US and others. Next time take a look at the fish packaging and you'll find many seafood are imported from Asia.
China is consuming the world's resources at a fast rate.
They are just the purveyors, not the actual consumers though their population do consume some, most of the goods go all over the world.
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Originally Posted by vision33r
A lot of it is due to commerce, China sells a lot of fish abroad to US and others. Next time take a look at the fish packaging and you'll find many seafood are imported from Asia.
Exactly. That's why you see Alaskan salmon in those frozen packages that says "Product of China."
Obviously, there's no Alaskan Salmon in and around China but their fishing companies go to far off places like the northern Pacific to catch the salmon but they being from China will label their product as if it was from China.
A lot of it is due to commerce, China sells a lot of fish abroad to US and others. Next time take a look at the fish packaging and you'll find many seafood are imported from Asia.
Come on the US is not consuming any significant amounts of Chinese fisherman's catch. The seafood we get from Asia are farmed frozen shrimp and fish from SE Asia.
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