Posted on 10/26/2020 9:09:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
The Fisheries Agency moved to secure the safety of Japanese fishing boats operating in the rich Yamatotai fishing grounds within the nation’s exclusive economic zone by requesting they avoid certain areas and go elsewhere due to a recent surge in Chinese vessels moving in.
The request, directed at Japanese fisheries cooperatives, caused considerable grumbling with a fisherman in Ishikawa Prefecture, facing the Sea of Japan, griping, “When a burglar has entered one’s backyard, would anyone say do not get near the thief?”
Fisheries Agency officials declined to go into details, saying only that its request was aimed at securing the safety of Japanese fishing boats.
The Yamatotai fishing grounds, located in the center of the Sea of Japan and considered a treasure trove of "surumeika" Japanese flying squid and crab hauls, was where a collision occurred in October 2019 between a Fisheries Agency patrol boat and a North Korean vessel that led to the sinking of the latter.
Foreign fishing boats have frequently intruded into Japan’s EEZ.
According to Fisheries Agency officials, about 4,000 North Korean fishing boats were ordered to leave the waters in 2019. But this year, only one boat has been asked to do so.
However, Chinese fishing boats have taken up the slack and by the end of September a total of 2,589 boats were asked to leave the EEZ, a 3.6-fold increase over the same period in 2019.
The Japan Coast Guard, which operates under different laws, noted that in any given year more than 1,000 North Korean fishing boats are normally ordered to leave but said no such action had been taken this year.
(Excerpt) Read more at asahi.com ...
From Wiki Japan:
“Flying squid have been observed to cover distances as long as 30m[12] above the surface of the water, presumably to avoid predators or save energy as they migrate across vast expanses of ocean,[13] uniquely utilizing jet-propelled aerial locomotion.[14]”
India just informed China it will use first force if pushed
too far.
It has nukes also. I believe it was referring to it’s
ships at sea, and it didn’t mince words.
These things are always sticky. I wouldn’t urge India
to do something stupid, but it isn’t very happy with
china.
“In other words, a target rich environment, with friendlies cleared out?
This could get quite interesting...”
The Chinese often have armed coast guard escorts, and even some of their larger fishing boats are armed.
“Last year, outgoing Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richards warned his Chinese counterpart, Vice Adm. Shen Jinlong, that the United States was aware that China uses a militia fishing fleet to push its illegal claims in the East and South China Seas.”
...
“Most of the maritime militia vessels operate on high seas and are usually engaged in commercial fishing, but occasionally are called on to assist the PLAN or China Coast Guard (CCG). “
(the yamato tai fishing grounds are due north of oosaka and due east of pyonyang.)
It’s well past time to start sinking these Chinese “fishing boats” which are nothing more that PLN auxilliaries. They know exactly what they are doing and it’s time for others to demonstrate that they know also.
It’s simple, ..... China is out of food!
Question: How many of the Chinese trawlers are festooned with antennas rather than fishing nets?
Making them hostile armed enemy combatants invading Japanese claimed waters. The armed civilian boats could reasonably be regarded as non-uniformed enemy combatants, making them subject to summary execution.
JMSDF has fairly good legal grounds to remove the threat.
It could get very noisy...
That, and a country that is in real danger of famine, due to floods, locusts and livestock diseases.
That would mean Xi has lost 'The Mandate of Heaven'.
Sucks to be him, on so many levels.
EXCEPTIONALLY well said!
All he needs is an inconvenient earthquake under the 3 Gorge Dam.
...and hungry for world hegemony!
At least this poaching would address the food side of the 'too many mouths not enough food' equation.
The wars they are trying to provoke address the other side...
A half kt near the base should suffice...
Sorry no sympathy from me on the is one. The Japanese fishing industry is notorious for swarming the oceans and prime fisheries for decades.
They drag miles of nets of the west coast and hauling in our salmon and steelhead and our government masters tell us our hydro dams are the problem.
China has a food problem between the floods and the swine flu...
Beijing needs to feed her hungry people.
Perhaps, but they have been using “fishing boats” as a military auxiliary for quite some time.
Thank you.
The open water is international. We have foreign boats regularly 3 to 12 miles off shore.
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