More than 16,000 Chinese fishing vessels are pouring into the South China Sea
More than 16,000 Chinese fishing vessels are pouring into the South China Sea
After a three-and-a-half-month fishing ban in the South China Sea blatantly imposed by China ended August 16, more than 16,000 fishing boats from Hainan Island began to pour into the waters.
Footage posted by China Central Television on August 16 states that more than 16,000 fishing boats from Hainan Island set sail the same day after the South China Sea fishing ban ended. The voyage takes about 6-7 days to sail. In the video, a fisherman said the fishermen had prepared food for 12 days.
The video also showed fishing vessels in the Guangxi Choang Ethnic Autonomous Region on August 16 starting to sail in the Gulf of Tonkin to fish in the "open sea".
On August 1, responding to a reporter's question about China issuing a notice banning fishing in the South China Sea from August 1 to 16 and implementing measures to enforce this notice, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Thi Thu Hang stated: "Vietnam has sufficient historical evidence and legal basis asserting its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos in accordance with international law.
As a coastal state in the East Sea and a member of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Vietnam has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction over its waters established in accordance with the Convention, at the same time. also enjoy other legal rights at sea in accordance with the Convention. Vietnam rejects this unilateral decision of the Chinese side ".