Cambodia detains 18 Chinese trawlers since weeks

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Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

Koh Kong province

 

Weeks after a fleet of 18 Chinese trawlers was detained by the authorities in Koh Kong, the vessels and their skeleton crews remain in Cambodian waters amid conflicting reports on why they were impounded, and with little indication as to when they and their crews will leave.

 

Koh Kong Provincial Governor Bun Leut yesterday told the Post that an official from the Chinese Embassy visited the impounded vessels – each of which has a crew of two Chinese nationals – a fortnight ago to identify the owning company.

 

“These are international fishing boats, and they cannot fish our waters,” Leut said of the trawlers, whose home port is marked as Guangzhou.

 

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[RaoulDuke]

China won't be happy until they can destroy the entire marine ecosystem with their fleet of trawlers. At the rate they are going, the ocean will be as dead as their rivers by the end of the century. The only thing they learned from following in the footsteps of the industrial revolution countries they admire so much is how to screw everything up, but they do it all exponentially worse. Rather than learning from the mistakes of the west, they just keep doing the same horrible things over and over again in search of endless greed. 5000 years of living in harmony with nature, completely offset by 50 years of destroying it.