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China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announces a three-and-a-half-month ban on summer fishing in the South China Sea, which includes some of Vietnam’s waters.
The aforementioned illegal and unilateral prohibition applies from 12 noon on May 1 to 12 noon on August 16. The fishing ban extends from the North Sea area of the South China Sea to 12 degrees north latitude, including part of the Gulf of Tonkin and the Paracel Islands belonging to the sovereignty of Vietnam. In addition, there is the Scarborough Shoal that China illegally occupied after a confrontation with the Philippine ship in 2012.
According to Xinhua, Chinese maritime ships and fisheries inspection forces have been deployed to monitor the implementation of the ban. The company said more than 50,000 fishing boats will be out of service within three and a half months.
Since 1999, China has unilaterally begun to impose an annual fishing ban in the South China Sea, despite objections from many countries in the region.
Recently, China has continued to provoke provocative actions in this sea, such as the illegal creation of illegal control districts of the Paracel and Spratly islands of Vietnam.
The country also defiantly announces the so-called “standard title” of 25 islands, rocks and 55 underwater geographic features in the South China Sea, including those belonging to the Paracel and Spratly islands. Vietnamese rights, including shallow beaches within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.
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