David versus Goliath in fishing
PERU Saturday, May 18, 2024, 21:00 (GMT + 9)
A little more than three years ago, the government of the People's Republic of China surprised the world by reporting that its distant water industrial vessels, which fish for squid at the edge of the jurisdictional waters of Peru and the Galapagos, would move at least ten miles from that limit. They did so in the face of repeated questions against their fleet, which entered Peruvian and Ecuadorian jurisdictional waters to clandestinely capture fishing resources. At the time they made this decision, a modus operandi was clearly characterized that consisted of turning off their satellite equipment near the Peruvian sea, to enter it without being detected and fish illegally. Then they returned to international waters. This measure was complemented by the fact that Peru decreed, in 2020, that these ships must use a Peruvian satellite tracking devic... FULL STORY