Jakarta: The captain of fishing vessel Gui Bei Yu 27088 has admitted to having repeatedly entered Indonesia for poaching before being caught by the Indonesian Navy last week.
Ziang Tuang Chean said he was aware that he had been operating in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the South China Sea, and that he was forced to fish there because it was among the few remaining places that still held an enormous amount of resources.
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