The leadership in Tehran is fleets towards its own population in expository due to Chinese Fishing in Iranian waters. The agreement was threaded into silence.
In October 2017, the Chinese Ministry of agriculture said on its website that five fishing vessels from Shandong province in the lake were stung, and in November (2017), target port of Bandar Abbas would achieve. Bandar Abbas, the Iranian port on the Strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
In the message of the Ministry the technical Details of the ships and their tasks are described in more detail: Accordingly, the ships have electric propulsion with a 1750 KW of power, a length of 50 meters and a load capacity of 722 tons. Mainly to sword – and ink-fish catch. For sale on the Chinese market.
Finally, the political Dimension of the fishing fleet is clearly described: “on behalf of the Shandong province organized for the first time, a deep-sea fishing fleet in Iranian waters. The Shandong province is expanding its fishing operations far beyond its coast, and promotes effective fisheries cooperation with other countries in the course of the Belt and Road Initiative.”
Iran’s Fischer see through China’s modern fleets threatened
Disturbance by local fishermen
The Iranian fishing communities seem to be, but this cooperation did not, as it’s now known. “The fact that there is such a lease contract (for the use of the fishing grounds in the Persian Gulf) between China and Iran, was leaked, after the presence of foreign fishermen and trawl boats in the waters of Chusistan (the Northern tip of the Persian Gulf) to unrest in the local population,” writes the exiled website “Iran News Wire”. First, the government claims in Tehran, that the ships Iran would be of the origin and licenses of the Iranian fisheries authority. “But it soon became clear that China is chasing everything and wegfischt, what is under the surface of the sea,” writes critical of the government platform, “Iran News Wire”, of course, substantiated this.
Official Iranian Authorities saw in the past weeks, apparently after protests from fishermen and other stakeholders, urged various and sometimes conflicting opinions about the presence of Chinese fishing boats in Iranian waters.
Also waste water and waste threaten the fish stocks in the Persian Gulf
Winding official opinions
So Mohammad-Ali Hassanzadeh, the Deputy Director of the national organization for ports and special economic zones said: “The Chinese have closed with our fisheries organization, a long-term contract. Your fishermen are equipped boats, other than our boats, with a technology that allows you to catch fish, 200 metres deep.”
Therefore, it is likely to be a so-called pelagic trawl net that is towed between sea bottom and surface (in the message on the Chinese website, the talk of “single-towing fishing operations”, that is, each boat tows its own network). The pelagic network, according to Greenpeace today, in addition to the bottom trawl is the main fishing gear in the high seas. A mesh fill can deliver up to 500 tons of fish, including huge quantities of bycatch, one of the reasons why it is being criticized this Form of fishing.
In contrast to the above-cited statement of the Deputy Director of the national organization for ports and special economic zones Shapour Kakoulaki, representative of the Iranian fishing organization, said to the news Agency ILNA: “Not a single foreign ship or boat, whether from China or Indonesia or anywhere else in the world, it is allowed in Iranian waters move, because this is contrary to military directives and safety regulations of the Islamic Republic.” Kakoulaki confirmed at the same time, that “a Chinese citizen has registered a company in Iran and according to the contract, 80 Chinese fishing boats will bring in Iran’s southern waters, to fish.”
Iran’s foreign Minister Zarif (left) defended the fishing Deal with China
The foreign Minister, Zarif: a Lot of people make it so
Also, the Iranian foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an Interview with the Iranian television on June 27. August to the theme, and diplomatically-indirectly: “Everywhere in the world, it is allowed to use, territorial waters, when local fishermen are able to. I’m in this industry not an expert, but such usages are not uncommon. You have a source, like Oil, but a source of living beings. If you do not use this source, and consumes, dries up. If so you are not able to use this source, you have to allow others to operate, in this case, fishing. A lot of people make it so.”
In other words, The activities of Chinese fishing fleets ultimately serves even a sustainable management of fishing in Iranian waters. This view is protectors Tehran to the environment and the fishing community need to probably explain a little better – if you can.