SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and China held a virtual meeting among relevant government officials Wednesday to discuss joint efforts to better respond to illegal fishing in South Korea’s territorial waters, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The meeting took place to assess recent related developments in China and the current status of illegal [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s oceans ministry said Monday that it plans to implement an enhanced crackdown on Chinese boats fishing illegally in the West Sea this week in cooperation with the Coast Guard. The country will work to round up boats fishing or operating illegally in South Korea’s Exclusive Economic Zone [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and China have agreed to boost cooperation in curbing illegal fishing by Chinese boats in the East Sea, the oceans ministry said Wednesday. Under an agreement reached during a three-day working-level meeting last week, South Korea will swiftly inform China of suspected illegal fishing in the North [...]
INCHEON, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — High-end drones will be deployed on large vessels operated by South Korea’s Coast Guard to monitor Chinese boats engaging in illegal fishing activities, officials said Thursday. The Coast Guard announced that it will invest 28 billion won (US$21.4 million) by 2028 to purchase 144 additional drones for 32 large [...]
INCHEON, June 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean coast guard said Sunday that it has seized a Chinese speedboat for suspected illegal fishing in South Korean waters in the Yellow Sea. The five-ton boat carrying two Chinese fishermen is suspected of trying to fish in waters about 35 kilometers west of South Korea’s western [...]
Washington, D.C., May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A new collaboration aims to boost equitable access to vital fisheries intelligence, data analysis and capacity building assistance to help developing maritime States combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Founded by the International Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Network, Global Fishing Watch and TMT, the Joint Analytical Cell, or [...]
INCHEON, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An average of 65 unlicensed Chinese fishing boats have been appearing in waters near the western inter-Korean sea border every day this month ahead of the April-June crab catching season, a sharp rise from about 15 boats on average during the same period last year. According to the Coast [...]
JEJU, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are growing that illegal fishing by Chinese vessels is decimating fisheries resources in the waters off Jeju Island. The Korean Coast Guard recently intercepted a Chinese flagged fishing boat (149 ton, 18 crew members) that was illegally using a net with 7-millimeter mesh, far tighter than the legal [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Coast Guard is enhancing its crackdown on Chinese fishing boats illegally operating in its waters, including the resumption of seizure operations, officials said Friday. About 340 Chinese vessels entered South Korea’s western exclusive economic zone in groups per day in October, a sharp rise from about 100 [...]
HONGSEONG, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Illegal fishing by Chinese boats in South Korean waters has grown increasingly rampant, with reported cases more than doubling from 2017 to 2019, according to a lawmaker Monday. The number of cases of either arrest or expelling of Chinese fishing boats operating in South Korea’s western waters reached 6,543 [...]