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This is the image of our coastal police cracking down on Chinese ships operating illegally in the West Sea with water cannons.
Chinese fishing boats continue to flock these days, where a lot of fish are caught despite this crackdown, and they are deliberately flocking to over 100 boats to invade them.
Reporter Jang Hoon-kyung reports.
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Dozens of Chinese fishing boats under illegal operation are floating in our waters.
The structure was installed so that it could not be raised above the ship,
[Marine Police: Chinese fishing boats, etc. There are obstacles installed.]
Ships that do not hit the water cannon continue fishing without worrying.
[Marine Police: in the middle of hitting the wheelhouse and wheelhouse.]
Until last year, an average of 100 ships per day invaded, but from this year it has more than doubled to 340.
Usually, only one large 1,000 ton ship is dispatched, aiming for a loophole in the sea police crackdown, invading as a group and sweeping the fish.
In response, the Coast Guard formed a large-scale mobile flyer, including four large ships.
This month alone, over 7,100 Chinese ships were expelled.
[Marine Police Agency official: As a group, if hundreds of (Chinese fishing boats) come from a wide range, if you (crack down) one side, one will be opened. (For the mobile
fleet
) 2~300 scales (tolerates.)] The
capture operation is also resumed.
It has maintained a non-face-to-face operation, mainly driven out by the coronavirus outbreak, but it is trying to seize the ship by holding it at all.
A maximum of 300 million won in collateral is required to take the captured fishing boats, so the crackdown is great.
The Coast Guard emphasized that through discussions with the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it will comply with the quarantine regulations not only during the capture process, but also for confiscation and investigation.
(Video editing: Wonhee Won, screen provided: Maritime Police Agency)