Seoul - A Chinese fishing boat capsized in a maritime fight with Korea South Coast Guard ship trying to curb illegal fishing activities on Saturday, killing a fisherman and leaving the other two disappeared, a South Korean official said.
Approximately 50 vessels Chinese was illegally fishing waters Gunsan City, approximately 170 miles south of Seoul, Korean South West when the ship South Korea approached Ji tae Kwan Coast Guard spokesman. One of the craft intentionally struck the ship larger to allow fellow Chinese ships Coast Guard navigate their waters and then overturned, he said.
Eight people from the overturned vessel were plucked off the waters, but one was unconscious and later died, Ji said. Guard rescue boats coast and helicopters were sent to the region to locate the two Chinese marine missing, he said.
Mr. Ji said Coast Guard officers had fought with the fishermen on other Chinese vessels served steel pipe and four officers suffered non-fatal injuries.
A man, answer the phone at the rescue in Beijing and China maritime research confirmed that Chinese fishing vessel capsized Saturday in the Yellow Sea and two Chinese fishermen had disappeared. China has sent a rescue boat and asked to send boats and South Korea, he said.
Questioned on the assertion of the South Korea Chinese boat fishing illegally, the man said that was always collected information on the incident. He did not his name, as it often happens with Chinese officials.
The Chinese Embassy in Seoul invocations went unanswered.
More than 300 Chinese fishing boats is captured for illegal fishing in the waters of the South Korea under each year Korea South Coast Guard. In 2008, a Korea South Coast Guard officer was killed and six others injured in a maritime fight with Chinese fishermen engaged in fishing authorized Korea southern waters.
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