Seoul and Beijing agree on cutting annual fisheries quota
- 5 years ago
내년도 한중 어업협상 타결…입어 규모 50척 축소
Korea and China are cutting fifty fishing boats in each of their exclusive economic zone starting next year.
According to the nation's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the two sides have reached an agreement on reducing their annual fisheries quota, during their four-day bilateral talks held in the southern port city of Busan.
The deal allows the two countries to send up to a thousand-4-hundred-50 boats in each other's exclusive waters.
The ministry said the decision to decrease quota comes after governments' efforts to rein in illegal fishing by unauthorized Chinese boats along Korea's western maritime border.
On average some 400 to 500 Chinese vessels illegally fish in Korean waters every year.
Korea and China are cutting fifty fishing boats in each of their exclusive economic zone starting next year.
According to the nation's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the two sides have reached an agreement on reducing their annual fisheries quota, during their four-day bilateral talks held in the southern port city of Busan.
The deal allows the two countries to send up to a thousand-4-hundred-50 boats in each other's exclusive waters.
The ministry said the decision to decrease quota comes after governments' efforts to rein in illegal fishing by unauthorized Chinese boats along Korea's western maritime border.
On average some 400 to 500 Chinese vessels illegally fish in Korean waters every year.