On: Hundreds of fishing vessels vanishing along Argent...

[tangus]

Well, that was 40 years ago. And also, you don't launch Exocet missiles against commercial ships...

[MrDresden → tangus]

No, you race up to them with a gunboat and shoot 2 warnings shots accross the bow. The third one goes into a boat.

Quite standard practice, and very much applicable in situations where these roaming fleets are steeling quota that they have no right to.

[petre → MrDresden]

They should be arrested. Let the PRC handle their release with a massive press scandal.

[theshrike79 → tangus]

This is exactly what the Chinese fishing fleets are counting on.

They won't go away and they WILL take every single living thing from the ocean unless someone steps in.

[adrr → tangus]

They sunk Chinese fishing boats before.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Yan_Yuan_Yu_010