espansionismo cinese anche nella pesca.

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Difficile capire dove inserire questa notizia: La Marina cilena ha schierato i suoi battelli per monitorare le attività dei pescherecci cinesi. L'articolo, che proviene da una rassegna stampa sulle Marine Mercantile del mondo (Maasmond Maritime), segnala che la marina cilena ha dislocato   uno dei suo battelli tipo Scorpène nella sua zona economica esclusiva  vicino alle isole di Juan Fernández, (davanti alle coste cel Cile centrale) per prevenire fenomeni di spesa illegale che, evidentemente, non sono cosi sporadici. vi riporto l'articolo integrale 

 

 

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Chilean Navy Deploys Submarine to Monitor Chinese Fishing Vessels

In the depth of the South Pacific Ocean, a Chilean submarine has been keeping tabs on Chinese fishing vessels to halt illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. In late December, the Chilean Navy said it had deployed one of its Scorpène class submarines in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), in the vicinity of the Juan Fernández Islands, off the coast of central Chile, to monitor and control the passage and activities of the Chinese fishing fleet. The archipelago, part of Chile’s territory, is a protected area for its rich biodiversity, which received the UNESCO biosphere reserve designation in 1977. According to the Chilean Navy, the Chinese fishing vessels transit yearly through Chile’s EEZ, coming from Ecuador’s Galápagos Islands on their way to the Strait of Magellan to prey on squid and other species, wreaking havoc on fisheries. “The deployment of the Chilean Navy’s Scorpène submarine is mainly aimed at giving a geopolitical message, to tell the Chinese government directly: ‘You are crossing our EEZ, we allow you to pass through because there is freedom of transit, the law of the sea allows it, but we are not going to let you carry out illegal activities within our sea. We are going to protect our resources,” Milko Schvartzman, An Argentine IUU fishing and environmental crime investigator, told Diálogo on January 23. “There is a public message to society: to tell the population that the Chilean Navy is fulfilling its duty in protecting its territory.” The Scorpène-class diesel-electric submarine is a conventional attack submarine, built for defense and with the capacity to sink other ships, Chilean news site BioBio reported. The Chilean Navy has four submarines: two Scorpène class and two U-209 class.IUU fishing by foreign fishing vessels, including China and Russia, has been a prevalent and enduring threat to the security of the Juan Fernández Islands for many decades, particularly because of the islands’ remoteness, Naval News reported.As a maritime state, Chile has nearly 2 million square kilometers of ocean, making it the 10th largest EEZ in the world, BioBio reported.“With regard to the vessels audited by the Navy, you can see an almost perfect line, a parade of hundreds of kilometers of about 90 vessels, one after the other in a caravan, and all of them were Chinese,” Schvartzman said. “Many of them were boats that fish south of the Galápagos Islands, off the Ecuadorian or Peruvian EEZ. Sometimes they come to the edge of Chile’s EEZ to fish for giant Humboldt squid; then a large portion crosses into the South Atlantic.”“A very rapid escalation [of fishing] is an environmental bomb,” Schvartzman added. “If from one day to the next there is a very intense and uncontrolled exploitation of a species, it will generate a problem in the ecosystem, because there is no physical limit at the maritime boundary. What happens outside that geographic boundary immediately affects what happens inside.”

High Seas Treaty 
In January 2024, Chile became the first country in the world to ratify the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty (the High Seas Treaty). The agreement seeks to designate 30 percent of the world’s oceans as protected areas, allocate more money to marine conservation, and safeguard access to and use of marine resourcesChile not only is the first country to ratify the High Seas Treaty, but the South American country also offered to host the Treaty Secretariat in Valparaíso, clearly demonstrating its focus on advancing environmental and marine conservation“In this case, Chile is literally being a champion in environmental conservation on the high seas, Schvartzman concluded. “It’s an example we wish would happen with the rest of the governments