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At the end of July, the news went viral that revealed that between the Exclusive Economic Zones of Ecuador, between the mainland and the Galapagos Islands, there was a large fishing fleet with Chinese flag.
That same group of about 200 ships is now heading south and approaching Peru, so will pass – sooner rather than later – through Chilean waters.
The General Directorate of the Maritime Territory and Merchant Marine (Directemar) of the Chilean Navy assured that this it’s nothing new.
“The route of Chinese fishing vessels is the usual one in search for the giant squid resource that, seasonally, is available in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ”, they indicated.
“Every year some of these ships sail off our coasts and they cross the Strait of Magellan “they added.
Through Chilean waters yes or yes
Much of their journey will be made in front of national waters, but since the product they are looking for is also found in the Atlantic, the fleet will have to go to the Strait of Magellan and enter our Exclusive Economic Zone.
In conversation with BioBioChile, Directemar’s communications department chief, First Lieutenant Simón Stuven, commented that until this Friday the fleet is “a considerable distance from our jurisdictional waters.”
his arrival is expected between November and February, “However, this can vary and be advanced or delayed depending on the dynamics of the task and the behavior of the resource,” he added.
Consulted on what does the Navy do to prevent That the fleet depredates our natural resources while changing oceans, Stuven pointed out that in that period they “intensify” their surveillance and control processes “to prevent tasks from being developed.”
If a ship is caught transgressing the rule, the provisions of the articles apply. 115 and 124 of the General Law of Fishing and Aquaculture.
That is to say, unity is imprisoned, which is taken to a port stipulated by the same legal body; its content is seized, the fact is notified and all the antecedents are sent to the Judicial Power.
Monitoring “24/7”
From the entity they recalled that throughout the year they maintain protocols to monitor what happens in the Chilean sea, both on the surface and from the air and underwater, but that when these ships return “we deploy the necessary means for this purpose”.
According to them, the work is “24/7” and is carried out from its Monitoring and Analysis Center located in the offices of the Valparaíso Security and Maritime Operations Directorate.
There, technical staff analyzes in real time the movement of these ships and it has the ability to verify or coordinate search and rescue operations that may occur in areas of Chilean responsibility.
In this, the Directemar works in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the Undersecretariat of Fisheries and also with the Secretariats of the Regional Fisheries Organizations.
The above by way of giving compliance with supreme decree 141, which approves the policy aimed at “preventing, discouraging and eliminating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the international arena.”
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