Mokpo Coast Guard Seizes Two Chinese Fishing Vessels on Charges of Obstructing Special Official Duties
Obstruction of Boarding with a Weapon and Noncompliance with Boarding Orders
Mokpo Maritime Police Station (Chief Kwon Oh-seong) announced on the 30th that it has seized two Chinese fishing vessels on charges including obstruction of special official duties.
![Foreign crew members of illegal fishing vessels are resisting using weapons. <br>[Photo by Mokpo Maritime Police Station]](http://www.asiae.co.kr/news/img_view.htm?img=2024013015133848470_1706595218.jpg)
Foreign crew members of illegal fishing vessels are resisting using weapons.
[Photo by Mokpo Maritime Police Station]
On the 29th at 9:39 PM, while conducting illegal fishing inspections on Chinese fishing vessels A (125 tons, pair trawl, registered in Dalian, 16 crew members, main vessel) and B (125 tons, 18 crew members, single vessel) operating about 94 km west of Hongdo, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, the vessels allegedly disobeyed the maritime police's order to stop and used weapons to obstruct the boarding of enforcement officers.
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Mokpo Maritime Police plan to conduct a thorough investigation and strictly punish the captains and crew of vessels A and B for disobeying the stop order, obstruction of special official duties, and illegal fishing charges.
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