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Chinese coast guard ships are seen patrolling the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea. A Chinese coast guard personnel aboard an inflatable boat approaches a group of Filipino fishermen collecting shells on the shallow part of the shoal. Beijing seized control of Scarborough Shoal -- known in the Philippines as Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal -- from Manila in 2012 following a tense standoff. IMAGES
The US Coast Guard plans to end its search after finding five people dead from a capsized boat off the coast of Florida, in which 39 people were reported missing, captain Jo-Ann Burdian announces at a press conference from Miami. The boat left Bimini in the Bahamas on Saturday and capsized after hitting rough seas 45 miles (65 kilometers) east of the city of Fort Pierce. SOUNDBITE
Motril (Spain), Aug 16 (EFE).- (Camera: Alba Feixas) The Spanish Maritime Service of the Civil Guard intercepted on Monday near the coast of Granada a small fishing boat in which three Moroccans were travelling.FOOTAGE OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE MIGRANTS.
Istanbul, 25 Nov (EFE), (Camera: Erdem Sahin / Ilya U. Topper).- "Fifteen centimeters, very good, very good". The inspector returns a pair of jack mackerel to the ship's crate and bends over to check if another of the silvery fish that flopped onto the deck under the glare of a spotlight is also big enough to go to market. It is nearly midnight on the Bosphorus.Ahmet Yavuz has been with the Coast Guard for two decades, and has spent the last four years on fishing patrols, so he knows the regulatory sizes by heart. "Anchovy, nine centimeters. Horse mackerel and red mullet, thirteen centimeters. Bonito, 25", using a sort of of tin spade with a measuring ruler marked into it on which he places each fish."Our work is fundamental, because if the species are caught before they reach maturity and can spawn, they will become extinct," the inspector says while he throws overboard some "little fish" that have slipped through the net.If there are only a few specimens that don’t comply with the regulations, the boat in question will escape a fine."They can have up to 15 percent of ‘trash’ fish, that is, fish below the regulation size or species different from the one being sought," says Yavuz, while he is careful not to cause a moray eel to snake through the jack mackerel. "If it is more, we confiscate the catch and impose a fine.FOOTAGE OF THE TURKISH COAST GUARD.
Images showing a boat belonging to the Italian coastguard in the harbour of Lampedusa island in Sicily, after they rescued migrants in the Mediterranean sea. IMAGES
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