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Ecuadorian Navy Monitors Fishing Fleet Approaching Galápagos
Hundreds of Chinese-flagged ships have been approaching the Galápagos Island’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), raising alarms among the Ecuadorian government and...
In late June and early July, more than 100 Chinese-flagged vessels crossed from the Atlantic to the Pacific to join an extensive fleet that was already fishing in the area, the U.S. environmental news website Mongabay reported.
- By Juan Delgado / Diálogo
“They are moving from west to east, toward the Galápagos, which means that they will be at the edge of the archipelago’s EEZ in the next few weeks,” Milko Schvartzman, a marine conservation specialist with the…
In mid-July, the ships were about 400 miles off the…