The Vietnam Fisheries Association has opposed China for violating
Vietnam’s sea and island sovereignty by allowing tens of thousands of fishing
boats to operate in Vietnam’s sea territories.
Tran Cao Muu, general secretary
of the association, yesterday said the agency has released “Vietnam Fisheries
Association’s statement on protest against China’s violation of Vietnam’s sea
and island sovereignty.”
The statement was issued after
China on Wednesday lifted a seasonal fishing ban illegally imposed by itself
for many areas in the East Sea, allowing tens of thousands of Chinese fishing
boats to head to Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel)
archipelagoes for fishing.
Such fishing operation is an act
of violating Vietnam’s sovereignty over the two archipelagoes, the association
said in the statement.
Through the fishing, China has
violated the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea in 1982 and the 2002
Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) between ASEAN and
China.
The Association strongly objects
to the violations and demands that China stop them immediately.
The association calls on
Vietnamese fishermen to continue their normal fishing activities in the seas of
Vietnam and requests that concerned agencies take more effective and stronger
measures to protest China’ illegal action and to safeguard fishermen.
According to the Chinese media,
China will take about 23.000 fishing boats down the East Sea after lifting its
fishing ban that started on May 16 and ended on August 1.
Of these vessels, nearly 9,000
are from Hainan Province and some 14,000 are from Guangdong Province, Xinhua
and China Daily reported.
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