Japanese patrol boats have been pushing back hundreds of North Korean vessels trying to poach in fishing grounds rich with squid off Japan’s northern coast.
In this late May, 2019, image from video provided by Japan Coast Guard, Japan Coast Guard patrol boat sprays water to a North Korean fishing boat after the fishing boat didn't ignore the warning to evacuate in the waters near Yamatotai, Japan. Japanese Coast Guard says its patrol boats have been pushing back hundreds of North Korean poachers swarming toward fishing grounds off Japan’s northern coast.
More than 300 North Korean boats have been forced out of Japan’s exclusive economic zone near Yamatotai since May, the coast guard said in a statement.Coast guard footage showed North Korean crewmen on a wooden boat abandon a fishing rope after being sprayed water. Experts say the growing number of poachers may be related Pyongyang’s campaign to boost fish harvests to obtain dietary protein as the nation struggles to achieve food self-sufficiency and to overcome health problems caused by poor diets. To reach their quotas, fishermen from the North may be taking more risks and venturing farther from their usual waters, often violating Japan’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone, experts say.
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