BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – Charges for illegal fishing will be filed against two Taiwanese and seven Filipinos apprehended by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) off Cagayan last week.
The PCG
said the nine fishermen were on a Taiwanese fishing boat, which was found to
have no commercial fishing license.
They are
being detained at Cagayan’s Santa Ana port while the PCG took custody of
their their fishing boat.
Last year,
six Chinese fishermen were fined $200,000 or P9 million for fishing near the
Calayan group of islands without permits from authorities.
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