December 19, 2014 — Taiwan yesterday urged Indonesia to refrain from firing on fishing boats illegally operating in Indonesian waters following reports the Southeast Asian country's navy was hunting four Taiwanese vessels to enforce Jakarta's vow to take a hard line against poaching.
Officials with Taiwan's Fisheries Agency asked that Jakarta observe international protocol that allows its authorities to seize poaching vessels and arrest their crews, but forbids them from opening firing.
The call follows reports that four Taiwanese fishing boats were among 13 foreign vessels being hunted by Indonesia's navy and that the Southeast Asian county had recently blown up three Vietnamese vessels and seized 22 China-registered boats illegally operating in its territorial waters.
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