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The Navy categorically denied that Chinese ships are currently in jurisdictional waters, that after a complaint by artisanal fishermen from Caleta Cifuncho in Taltal, which was picked up by the Argentine newspaper Infobae.
“Faced with the information circulating in some press media regarding fishermen from the Cifuncho de Taltal cove reporting sightings of Chinese vessels, the Chilean Navy reports that said information is false “, indicated the institution through a statement.
“As the Chilean Navy and maritime authority we reject this type of false information that tends to confuse and mislead the community with data that are not real and affect the audit work carried out by the institution in the protection of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Chile ”, they remarked.
According to data collected by Directemar, the large Chinese fishing fleet that exploits resources off the Pacific waters of the countries of the region still does not leave the area adjacent to Peru.
Specifically, at 18:00 hours this Thursday, the monitoring of the entity located the group “north of the SAR area of responsibility of our country.”
Thus, they detailed that at that time the closest ship of the Chinese fleet was 36 miles (66.6 kilometers) north of said zone and 800 miles (1,480 kilometers) off the coast of Peru.
On the same case, the Captaincy of the Port of Taltal said it had not received any complaints In this regard, his manager “made contact with the leadership of the fishermen in the area, who deny these claims,” they added from the Navy.
“The Chilean Navy maintains 24/7 monitoring through an automatic satellite positioning system (VMS), which reports (the position of the fleet) to a monitoring center located in the Secretariat of the South Pacific Regional Organization, located in New Zealand, and the State of their respective flag ”, they highlighted.
“The institution has at the disposal of the safeguard of sovereignty all its air, afloat and submarine means enlisted to enforce international regulations and guarantee respect for national regulations that protect national interests ”, they closed.
What did Infobae publish?
The aforementioned media spoke with Carlos Ortiz, a representative of the artisanal fishermen of Caleta Cifuncho.
The artisanal fisherman and diver told them “the serious situation his union faces due to the progressive lack of resources” and that the sighting of Chinese vessels “has them worried”.
“Reproduction is impaired, because they come to devastate wherever they go. They come to extract and They do not have the care and disposition that Chilean fishermen can have, because we choose what we can extract taking care of and maintaining the reproduction of resources ”, he commented.
In the middle of the publication, it was mentioned that the boats are kilometers from the coast and that their presence is negative because many marine species transit between the high seas and the coast, and it is in the first place where there is “greater predation”.
“For the president of the Antofagasta Fishing Association, sightings in areas belonging to Chilean territory are frequently noticed by colleagues. In his opinion the authorities are not aware. ‘The reality of what is being experienced in the sea is not known. And decisions are made centrally. The Chilean Navy is also pending the control of drug trafficking in these places, so the resources that can be counted on are very scarce, in order to have an efficient control, ‘”they wrote.
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