Mokpo Coast Guard Arrests Chinese Fishing Vessel Violating Restrictions Near Gageodo, Sinan

Mokpo Maritime Police Station (Chief Kwon Oh-seong) seized Chinese fishing vessel A (trawl net, 101t, 7 crew members) on the afternoon of the 23rd at 5:27 PM, 36 km northwest off Gageodo, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, for violating restricted conditions.

Mokpo Coast Guard is conducting an inspection on a Chinese fishing vessel.
[Photo by Mokpo Maritime Police Station]

Vessel A was found to have entered our Exclusive Economic Zone on the afternoon of the 21st and engaged in fishing activities. On the afternoon of the 23rd at around 1:30 PM, it transferred 350 kg of catch to vessel B (trawl net, 101t, 7 crew members) but failed to record this in the fishing logbook.

Since the 25th and until the 31st, the Coast Guard has been operating a special joint crackdown task force (Coast Guard, Navy, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries) targeting illegal fishing by foreign vessels in the West Sea. The ‘Special Task Force for Crackdown on Illegal Foreign Fishing Vessels’ aims to deter illegal fishing activities by foreign vessels and protect the livelihoods of our fishermen.

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