Illegal Chinese Fishing off Obock, Djibouti
Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 3:06 pm
Just because they invested billions of dollars in the Republic doesn't mean they can skirt our maritime laws and pillage our maritime resources. Their insatiable appetite for anything in the ocean is notoriously legend. These pirates flying Chinese flag should not be allowed to plunder our sea.
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print screenSix trawlers flying the Chinese flag were spotted off the coast of Djibouti in the past few weeks, flouting a ban and fishing in a protected coastal area near the town of Obock. Local fishermen, residents and activists immediately began protesting against the plundering of their resources… and, against all odds, they succeeded!
Hamid, a Djiboutian student and activist currently studying abroad, contacted the FRANCE 24 Observers team about a case of illegal fishing off the shores of Djibouti. Fishermen on the Fu Yuan Yu 98 86, a trawler flying a Chinese flag, were shamelessly casting their nets and raking the bottom of the Red Sea, less than five kilometres off the coast. They were seen carrying out the destructive practice of deep-sea trawling near the villages of Godoria and Khor Angar, between April 24 and May 3, 2017.
On April 27, our Observer, Houssein Mohamed Houmed Ganito, hopped into a small boat with four local fisherman and was able to get close enough to film the fisherman pulling in nets full of fish.
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