Reconnaissance aircraft of the Chilean armed forces monitor Chinese jigger jigger navigation (Photo: Directemar)
Foreign jiggers in transit leave national waters
CHILE
Thursday, June 03, 2021, 16:00 (GMT + 9)
The transit of the fleet began during the month of April from fishing grounds in the waters of the South Atlantic.
Heading north and destined for the fishing area west of the Galapagos Islands, in Ecuador, are the 67 Chinese nationality fishing vessels of the "Jiggers" type, which are currently in transit over waters of national responsibility.
The vessels, dedicated to the extraction of the resource "Giant Squid" (Dosidicus Gigas), began their change of fishing ground on April 19, date on which the first 2 foreign fishing vessels arrived at the sector of the Western Mouth of the Strait of Magellan, coming from its fishing area located 203 nautical miles (equivalent to more than 375 kilometers) east of Comodoro Rivadavia, a sector that at its peak housed more than 400 boats.
Photo: Directemar
In Knowledge of the Chilean Navy
The Chilean Navy maintains an exhaustive monitoring and analysis of the situation of the fishing fleet through the General Directorate of Maritime Territory and Merchant Marine (DIRECTEMAR), specifically from its "Central Monitoring and Analysis", located in the sector of the Punta Ángeles Lighthouse in Valparaíso, a place that continuously and 24/7 uses computer applications and satellite systems to detect the position of these ships.
This, with the aim of preventing the violation of national regulations in fisheries aspects and, in addition, providing security and protection to national maritime interests, an action that is permanently reinforced through ocean surveillance operations, through Surface Units. and Air Force of the Navy.
Photo: Directemar
Heading to Galapagos
Since mid-April, a total of 157 fishing vessels of the Giant Squid Jiggers Fleet have made the crossing through the Strait of Magellan, of which 67 are still sailing northwest, anticipating that on Thursday, June 11, the The last fishing vessel crosses the northern limit of the Chilean Maritime Search and Rescue area (SAR Area) towards waters of responsibility of Peru.
It should be noted that the fishing vessels that traveled over the Strait of Magellan did so under the figure of Paso Inocente, without calling at port, maintaining a strict and permanent surveillance of the fleet in order to detect, early, any anomaly in the behavior of these and thus combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU), preventing them from engaging in fishing or resource extraction activities in waters under national jurisdiction.
Source: Directemar
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