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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Ecuador navy 'on alert' as 260-strong Chinese fleet nears Galapagos Islands |
| 2020-07-30 |
| [FOX] A large fleet of some 260 Chinese fishing vessels has been spotted in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, the country’s navy officials said last week. The Ecuadorian Navy said it has increasing patrolling to ensure the Chinese ships do not enter the exclusive economic zone around the Galápagos Islands, where 19th-century British explorer Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution, Reuters reported. "We are on alert, conducting surveillance, patrolling to avoid an incident such as what happened in 2017," Ecuador’s Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin said at a press conference. Three years ago, a Chinese ship was apprehended in the Galápagos Marine Reserve carrying 300 tons of marine wildlife -- mostly sharks, including the hammerhead, which is near extinction. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Assuming these are fishing vessels and not "fishing vessels", a few of those Esmereldas could change some headings. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-07-30 18:39 |
| #8 Equadorian Navy. Both of them? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2020-07-30 17:50 |
| #7 Ecuadorian Navy |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-30 12:32 |
| #6 Time for mines? |
| Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-07-30 11:11 |
| #5 They probably need to reflag them in Nigeria or Panama. The American whaling fleet disappeared during our last civil war as Confederate raiders* drove them to reflag as British. The Chinese are a bit vulnerable in this case to any incident(s) they may provoke in the Western Pacific. * flagged for the South, but manned largely by sailors of other nationalities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-07-30 07:18 |
| #4 Hungry? Grow some more of these and eat'em. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-07-30 06:44 |
| #3 Sink them, starve China. |
| Posted by: H-T-A 2020-07-30 05:28 |
| #2 Saw an article that called out a similar fleet currently close to the Farallon Islands just off San Francisco. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-07-30 01:00 |
| #1 Followup from yesterday's China Food Crisis and tomorrow's China eats endangered turtles |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-30 00:33 |