Posted on 03/15/2016 7:54:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris
No. The vessel could have complied with orders from the Argentine warship. It did not and it was fired upon and sank. When you are in someone else's territorial waters if you do not comply with orders you are subject to harsh measures.
ps I am not a fan of Argentina nor their miserable leftist government. However they were right. End of story.
Chinese fishing ships are dredge fishing Sierra Leone waters and killing everything. Sierra Leone depends on those waters to feed its people, but has no ships to stop the Chinese.
That sounds like an act of war.
Yes, they thought they were still near the Lee-kee Shipyards.
Nope.
Commercial fisheries can be a significant chunk of a nation's economy. If you don't defend your national waters, someone will come in and deplete them, not only flooding the market with your fish, but depriving you and your economy of the catch. In addition, any conservation measures, tonnage limitations you impose to conserve the resource will be exceeded by those illegally fishing your waters, and your people suffer the results.
The Argentinians are perfectly within their rights to defend their national waters, and if the Chinese vessel tried to ram them, to sink it.
dated source, but showing why this is important.. Recovery of a renewable resource requires control of the stresses on the resource. Illegal fishing just messes things up for Argentina's fisheries.
I can see why they fought.
Tibet. /s
I just read that there are 10 to 30 times more fish in the sea than previously
where they been hiding - :)
Sum Ting Wong!
I was doubtful but I found an article about that and it sounds like it might be legitimate.
Indonesia has sunk ~150 foreign fishing vessels in the past two years. They take the crews off first.
The Indonesian fisheries minister is a tough ol’ gal with tattoos who dropped out of school to start her own fishing company. She later bought some aircraft to transport the catches by air, and now has her own small airline in eastern Indonesia.
They had extensive problems at home so they thought they would snatch up a bunch of islands that belonged to other countries, boost their economy and get some rah-rah going.
The Falklands from UK, the Islands in the Beagle Channel from Chile.
Probably best that they decided to take on the UK first. Chile might have decided to take and keep a few choice chunks of Argentina.
Maybe more so than we realize.
crazy, right?
I triple checked three articles lol.
95 percent!!!
I don’t know if these are big fish or edible but that would change Everything to tap that source.
rofl!!
they’re actually super smart fish with brains bigger than ours and they die laughing at our primitive techniques to catch them!!!
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