Maritime Monitoring in China
Fishing vessels are heavily regulated and monitored in U.S. waters. But what about in China?
According to a post last month in the People's Daily Online, China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) in 2010 achieved its marine monitoring mission with a key focus on comprehensive surveillance, which explored the new domain of legal rights and law enforcement to protect nation-state's maritime sovereignty.
As further reported:
In total, SOA has sent the ocean surveillance ship 160 vessel-times, sailing 210,000 nautical miles, and conducted 523 ocean surveillance operation, traveling 540,000 kilometers.
In the South China Sea, a sovereignty monument has been set in Zengmu Reef, announcing it is the territorial waters of People's Republic of China. Marine surveillance of 31 vessel-times was done periodically.
