These Chinese fishermen are apparently a rough crowd. According to Incheon Maritime Police Station on Thursday, one of its officers was severely wounded as he and other officers tried to seize two Chinese fishing boats illegally trawling in Korea’s EEZ.
The incident started when the two boats crossed 1.5 miles into Korea’s EEZ, 27 miles west of Baengnyeong Island on Tuesday. A 500-ton Korean maritime police patrol boat began seizure operations in response, with 12 officers boarding small boats to approach the offending trawlers. Six officers were able to win control of one of the vessels, but when the remaining six boarded and attempted to seize control of the other boat, its 18 Chinese crew members broke out the metal pipes to resist. They bashed 47-year-old Sergent Choe Ik-su in the face and dumped him overboard, and three other officers received facial wounds when they were struck with pipes.
Anyway, when Choe went in the water, the other five officers on the vessel disengaged to jump in after him. The six officers who had seized got in their small boat to pull them out. In the meantime, the two Chinese vessels escaped.
Maritime police dispatched six patrol boats to the scene of the incident and later seized three suspect fishing boats between Incheon and Tae’an. The boats were brought back to Incheon.
Police have decided to flood the sea areas frequented by illegal fishermen with patrol boats and helicopters. Fishing boats interfering with the crackdown will be seized by maritime police SWAT units.
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Nothing to see here.
Go home.
They were only Chinese so lets not get angry and ask for an apology we know we would never get. If they were Japanese then we could really get angry and ask for some apology that would never be good enough for Korea. But they are Chinese.
Nothing to see here.
Go home.
hehehe…if they had not only been japanese, but in the sea of japan. damn dokdo!
Actually, the Chinese like black locusts, are practically sweeping the sea devoid of life. The Chinese are taking advantage of the divide between North and South Korea. They go back and forth between North and South Korean borders at will. North Koreans can’t do diddly because they depend on China for food. South Korean coast guards can’t chase the Chinese ships into North Korea. Chinese pirate fishermen know this all too well. They’ve been playing this same game for years, which is slowly leading to extinction of fishing around this area.
Korean fishermen are protesting to the government, but the Korean government has done abolutely done nothing, fearing that it may lead to angering of China.
That’s partly true Kimbob, but Japanese and Korean trawlers with drift nets having been raping the area as well for decades. It would be best for all nations concerned to stop looking the other way as their nationals pillage the seas….
How common are the drift nets today, particularlyl by the Japanese and Koreans?
My understanding is that it is pretty common still. I know someone in the industry in the South Pacific and lets just say that the South Koreans do nothing to give themselves a good name.
One of the complaints Japanese fisherman had about fishing around Dokdo was, ironically, that the anchored nets the Korean fishermen used not only kept them from fishing in the area but caught so much fish they were depleting stocks. Not that Japan is a pacesetter in maritime conservation….
Well, at least Korea and Japan can go hand in hand when it comes to whaling.
In regards to ms. Korea, the dress is beautiful, but what kind of animal crawled up and died on her head?
blah nm, ignore that last post. Responded to the wrong thread.
A balancer does not get beat up like this.
It looks more like a slave to me.
Too bad the Coast Guard is tied up defending the useless, uninhabitable Dokdo instead of policing fisheries with real muscle. The only reason the Chinese fishermen would dare beat down Korean maritime police is that they know no consequences will follow.
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