Over illegal fishing? Bit extreme, donchathink?
Article claims they were trying to ram the Argentine Coast Guard vessel after turning off their lights.
“Over illegal fishing? Bit extreme, donchathink?”
Sometimes extreme is the only way to change things.
They were sunk due to trying to ram the coast guard boat.
About a year ago Indonesia sunk more than one Chinese fishing ship for illegal fishing in their waters.
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.
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.