Taiwan urges Philippines to release Taiwanese fishing boat

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Taiwanese, Indonesian poachers charged in court
May 14, 2015 7:58 pm
by LEANDER C. DOMINGO


TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said on Thursday a criminal complaint for poaching in Batanes has been filed against two Taiwanese officers and four Indonesian crew members.

BFAR Region 2 officers identified the Taiwanese as Horng Tian Ding and Huan An Shenq while the Indonesian crew were identified as Aru Apriyanto, Samhuri, Rasugi and Muhammad Abnu Khafif.

BFAR law enforcer Edwin Gonzales said an administrative case will also be filed before the BFAR Central Office, and the defendants can be meted with a fine of $1.2 million with six months to two years and two months imprisonment if found guilty by the court.

Gonzales said that if they are found to be repeat offenders, the crew can face three years imprisonment and a fine of up to $2.4 million under Section 91 of Republic Act 10654 that penalizes illegal fishing activities.

On the early morning of May 7, the suspects were manning Sheng Feng No. 12 vessel when BFAR law enforcers and the Philippine Coast Guard apprehended them within the municipal waters of Batanes.

Gonzales said the fishery law enforcers were on routine patrol mission on board MCS 3010 patrol vessel when they chanced upon the Taiwanese vessel.

He said the vessel was stationary at that time and its crew were preparing to deploy their long-line fishing gear.

“The fishing vessel first maneuvered to evade but later on allowed the law enforcers to board. The foreign vessel was apprehended 12 kilometers east of North Island,” Gonzales added.

Further inspection conducted by BFAR officials revealed Sheng Feng No. 12 is registered in Taiwan but other documents show that it used to be registered in the Philippines as Teresita 16, which was part of the fishing fleet owned by Lai Lai Fishing and Development Corporation.

BFAR outgoing Region 2 Director Jovita Ayson said the same company owned Teresita 6, a fishing vessel apprehended by BFAR Region 2 in June 2007.

“The Taiwanese crew of Teresita 6 were then found administratively liable for poaching and were ordered to pay $200,000 as administrative penalty,” Ayson said.

However, the fine remains uncollected to date, according to BFAR.

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[Zero_wing]

Well serve them right to be charge for their crimes they committed this arrogant fools need to know that Philippines is no push over

 

[Aepsilons]

All defendants are innocent till proven guilty. Let the Law determine.

And hopefully all sides respect the sacred proceedings in the Court of Law.

 

[Jlaw]

The case is still going on isnt it?
Wait to see what the Taiwanese next move after this reporting
I am sure the Taiwanese coastguards are good enough to get the job done if the Pinoy Navy would be over reacting like last time

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No doubt but the politicians dictate the move, and frankly Taiwanese politicians are some of the biggest pussies next to HK politicians.

 

[mike2000 is back]

[QOUTE="Zero_wing, post: 7151634, member: 139205"]Well serve them right to be charge for their crimes they committed this arrogant fools need to know that Philippines is no push over[/QUOTE]

True talk bro. To be honest, i think ironically that Taiwan is a bigger threat to the philipines and even more so to Vietnam than even their mainland brothers. Afterall it's much more feasible for small democratic Taiwan to have a limited naval clash with Vietnam /Philippines than China, since China being a farrrrr bigger country /rival to the U. S/west will be much more careful about attacking any of its smaller poorer neighbours like the Philippines and Vietnam, as the stakes will be much more higher than Taiwan doing so. So the Philippines and Vietnam should be much more careful with Taiwan, afterall the main party in power there still calls itself the CHINESE NATIONALIST party and they have retained much of the traditional Chinese /mandarin culture /language /heritage that even the mainland has lost (mainly due to the folly called cultural revolution) and mao's despising Confucius) .

As for some Chinese members on here, I don't get why they are screaming for Taiwan to go to war /retaliate militarily towards the Philippines, and badmouthing the KMT. afterall, the CCP isn't any better to be honest. Last time i checked Myanmar has been bombing China's territory now for a long time continuously and even killing Chinese civilians inside their own country, without the CCP doing anything at all, well other than deleting it's people's post online and censoring any news discussion about this by it's own people. At least the KMT doesn't do that to it's own people. So i don't think the CCP is any better to be honest.

 

[Zero_wing]

because they arrogant fools who played too much patriortic games or counter strike and they racist they view filipinos and other asians as lower life forms hell just check out their post that evidence enough but as we say here in the Philippines kakarmahin rin sila sa mali nilang ginagawa.