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On Monday afternoon, the Directemar confirmed that they are 11 ships belonging to the Chinese fishing fleet are those that already sail through our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ): three in the extreme south and eight in front of Talcahuano.
On their journey to catch squid, practically every year in spring or summer, vessels enter the EEZ by way of crossing the Strait of Magellan and reach the South Atlantic, but not to fish in jurisdictional waters.
“Of the foreign fishing vessels that already sail within our EEZ in search of the Atlantic, two are in front of Isla Guafo and one entering the Strait de Magallanes ”, they detailed from the entity.
To the south, meanwhile, eight fishing boats They are in transit to the strait, 170 nautical miles from Talcahuano, Bío Bío region.
During its passage through the Magallanes EEZ, apart from all the means provided by the Navy to ensure that marine resources are not exploited, join the personal surveillance of the inhabited lighthouses of Felix and Fairway, the Mayor’s Office of Mar de Tortuoso, the Harbor Master’s Office of Punta Delgada and the Maritime Traffic Control Station of the Punta Dungeness Lighthouse.
“To carry out surveillance tasks, the institution has already carried out operations through naval, maritime and air units, added to the permanent monitoring of the squid fleet through the Directemar Monitoring and Analysis Center, a task that is carried out 24 hours a day and seven days a week ”, they assured.
And the rest?
In the north, 42 ships They are operating within the SAR (search and rescue) Area of Responsibility, outside our EEZ, 314 nautical miles (581 kilometers) from Arica and 305 nautical miles (565 kilometers) from Taltal, supported by a logistics ship.
In the downtown area 15 ships They are in transit, also outside our EEZ, 297 nautical miles west of Chañaral and 236 miles west of San Antonio.
Further southWithout counting the eight already within the EEZ, another eight fishing vessels are operating outside the EEZ, 414 nautical miles from Corral.
According to the last balance, the complete group consists of 432 fishing vessels and 17 logistics support vessels.
What if they fish in Chilean waters?
What would the navy do If you find foreign ships preying on our natural resources while navigating the EEZ or crossing the Strait of Magellan?
In conversation with BioBioChile, the head of Directemar’s communications department, First Lieutenant Simón Stuven, explained that a transgression of this type will trigger the application of the Articles 115 and 124 of the General Law on Fisheries and Aquaculture.
That is, the unit (s) will be seized to divert them to a port stipulated by the same legal body.
There all your content will be seized, the corresponding authorities will be notified of the fact and the antecedents will be sent to the Judicial Power in order to give way to the respective sanctioning processes.
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