At 10 a.m. on February 19, the iron-hulled fishing boat QNa 91829 in Dong An Village, Tan Giang Commune, Nei Thanh City, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam, caught 1.5 tons of squid and fish when the wind blew up, so Captain Huynh Van Khoi sailed the boat to the south side of Hua Quang Reef (16.10 degrees north latitude, 111.62 degrees east longitude) in the Paracel Islands to take shelter. At noon, everyone went to bed and prepared for the night homework.
Suddenly, China Coast Guard 4301 approached his fishing boat, and the uniformed personnel on the Chinese boat lowered the boat, took iron bars, jumped on his fishing boat, and 1.5 tons of aquatic products were also confiscated. The captain signed a document in Vietnamese, acknowledging that Vietnamese fishing boats had intruded into Chinese waters. Finally, the captain, under the critical education, voluntarily cut the fishing net with a knife. Half of the nets were subsequently confiscated.
The total loss of the captain was about VND 830 million. "My boat was built in response to Decree No. 67 of 2014 on Financial Support for Fishermen's Purchase or Construction of Large Fishing Vessels to Support Fishery Development," he said. Now I owe more than VND 10 billion to the bank. I am determined to go to sea again, but I do need the support and help of the local government and provincial departments and agencies. ”
According to a number of fishermen in Quang Nam Province, recently, when many fishing boats went to Xisha to fish until they were almost full, suddenly all the fish on board were confiscated, resulting in heavy debt.
Mr. Pan Zheng, Chairman of the Tan Giang Commune Fisheries Trade Union, cordially greeted the returning fishermen on their physical health and encouraged them to maintain their love for the sea and their courageous spirit of sticking to the sea.
(The demarcation line on the map in Figure 3 is the South China Sea delimitation scheme unilaterally advocated by Vietnam.) That is, to abandon part of the waters of the Paracel Islands and delimit the border with China according to the 200-nautical-mile line of the Vietnamese mainland and the middle line between China and Vietnam)
