{"id":37544,"date":"2024-05-22T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=37544"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:07:14","slug":"us-coast-guard-controls-chinese-fishermen-in-the-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/us-kuestenwache-kontrolliert-chinesische-fischer-im-suedpazifik\/","title":{"rendered":"US Coast Guard checks Chinese fishermen in the South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

After six Chinese fishing boats violated the fishing laws of the Republic of Vanuatu, a group of islands east of Australia, they were inspected by the local police. The special thing about this is that the inspection was carried out from a US Coast Guard vessel, which was patrolling the waters of the Pacific island state for the first time.<\/p>\n

The basis for such 'deployments' are bilateral agreements with the USA, the so-called Shiprider Agreements, which allow law enforcement officers of the contracting state to carry out patrols in their territory and in their exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on board US Coast Guard (USCG) vessels. In joint teams, host nation authorities utilise the strength of the US fleet to enforce maritime laws and protect their respective national interests.<\/p>\n

The USA has concluded such an agreement with several countries in the Pacific in order to promote the strategy of a free and open Indo-Pacific. These shiprider agreements are also important in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, which is a major problem in the Pacific region. According to an estimate from 2016, IUU tuna fishing costs the Pacific states more than 600 million dollars a year.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the Chinese leadership does not like such ship inspections and the Chinese embassy in New Zealand issued correspondingly harsh statements at the beginning of April. The use of shiprider agreements between the USA and Vanuatu, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati and Fiji to \"carry out law enforcement measures against Chinese fishing vessels\" is a violation of international law and the agreements are not binding on China's fishing fleet. China is not obliged to accept law enforcement by countries other than the coastal states in their EEZs.<\/p>\n

In the letter, the ambassador went on to explain that China exercises strict supervision over its fishing fleets and has a \"zero-tolerance attitude towards illegal fishing\" and respects the sovereign rights of coastal states.
\nHow this fits in with Chinese territorial claims, e.g. in the South China Sea, probably remains the secret of Chinese diplomacy.<\/p>\n

\"Geographical
Geographical location of the Republic of Vanuatu. Source: CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The commander of the US Coast Guard for Oceania rejected the Chinese ambassador's accusations that their recent inspections of Chinese fishing boats together with the local police were illegal as inaccurate. Bilateral shipping agreements are in accordance with international law. The USCG carries out these inspections in agreement with the host countries protecting their EEZs, he said at a press conference in Honolulu, on the occasion of the return of the United States Coast Guard Cutter \"Harriet Lane\" (WMEC 903, 82 metres long) from its patrol in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n

The \"Harriet Lane\" has only been stationed in Hawaii since December 2023, with a new role as \"Indo-Pacific Support Cutter\" for operations in Oceania.<\/p>\n

kdk<\/p>\n

Source: gCaptain, warontherocks.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nachdem sechs chinesische Fischerboote gegen das Fischereigesetz der Republik Vanuatu, einer Inselgruppe \u00f6stlich von Australien, versto\u00dfen hatten, wurden diese von der \u00f6rtlichen Polizei inspiziert. Das besondere daran, die Kontrolle erfolgte von einem Schiff der US-K\u00fcstenwache aus, das erstmals in den Gew\u00e4ssern des pazifischen Inselstaates patrouillierte. Grundlage f\u00fcr derartige \u2018Eins\u00e4tze\u2018 sind bilaterale Vereinbarungen mit den USA, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42,48],"tags":[7378,6955,837,7376,7377,237,1079,7375,3612,3449,1091,7374],"class_list":["post-37544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-schifffahrt-news","tag-harriet-lane","tag-illegale-fischerei","tag-indopazifik","tag-internationales-recht","tag-iuu-fischerei","tag-maritime-sicherheit","tag-pazifik","tag-shiprider-abkommen","tag-strafverfolgung","tag-us-kuestenwache","tag-uscg","tag-vanuatu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49667,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37544\/revisions\/49667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}