The West Sea of the crab season is at war..."Yeonhwangye" that raises its head again.

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Recently, Chinese fishing boats have invaded our waters and engaged in illegal fishing during the adult fishing season in autumn.

Foreign fishing boats are struggling to crack down on the coast guard by tying each other's boats and even spreading tactics over the sea.

Reporter Yoon Woong-sung reports.

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The Coast Guard urgently catches up with Chinese fishing boats that are illegally fishing.

We attach the control vessels to the row of fishing boats and start overpowering them from the steering room.

" in contact. Currently recognizing the captain of the Chinese fishing boat. currently on the run"

Coast Guard members are looking every corner, and you can see the ships connected with ropes.

Chinese fishing boats used the so-called 'Yeonhwangye' to fight the crackdown in droves.

When coast guard members get on a ship, they jump to the next ship, break the rope, and run away.
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Coast Guard quickly occupied the ship, seizing two 50-ton fishing boats that were illegally fishing, and capturing eight people, including Chinese national captains.

At that time, 30 Chinese fishing boats came over to our waters.

When the Coast Guard seized one, nine fishing boats tied each other up and resisted.

It is not easy to crack down because sailors can flee across ships and dozens of people can join forces, but the Coast Guard is also nervous as such a "revolving system" has recently reappeared.

[Kang Pyeong-jung / Special Security Operations Director: If there is only one ship, it will be a one-on-one response, but if (multiple ships) gather in one ship and the crew members resist together, it will be difficult for our patrol ships to approach and crack down on them....]


As the number of Chinese fishing boats invading our waters increases during the fall season, the Coast Guard is intensively cracking down by deploying additional crackdown ships.

Chinese fishing boats often resist by wielding weapons, making illegal fishing crackdowns reminiscent of battlefields, and tensions in the West Sea are rising as the "Yeonhwangye" re-emerges.

I'm YTN Yoon Woong Sung.


Video editing: Lee Young-hoon
Screen courtesy: West Sea Five Islands Special Security Team