ABOARD ECUADOREAN NAVY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – Ecuador’s navy oversees a massive Chinese fishing fleet operating near the protected waters of the Galapagos Islands, thanks to the environmental impact of fishing in ‘ t area of the ecologically sensitive islands. A fishing boat is spotted from an Ecuadorian navy plane after …
Read More »Navy in Ecuador investigates large Chinese fishing fleet off Galapagos
ABOARD ECUADOREAN NAVY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) – Ecuador’s navy oversees a massive Chinese fishing fleet operating near the protected waters of the Galapagos Islands, thanks to the environmental impact of fishing in ‘ t area of the ecologically sensitive islands. A fishing boat is spotted from an Ecuadorian navy plane after …
Read More »Alarm over the discovery of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels near the Galapagos Islands | Ambient
Ecuador sounded the alarm after its navy discovered a huge fishing fleet of mostly Chinese-flagged vessels about 200 miles from the Galapagos Islands, the archipelago that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. About 260 ships are currently in international waters outside a 188-mile-wide exclusive economic zone around the island, but …
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