{"id":266011,"date":"2020-08-20T22:43:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T02:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=266011"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:23:50","slug":"protest-filed-vs-china-after-pinoy-fishermens-gears-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/20\/protest-filed-vs-china-after-pinoy-fishermens-gears-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest filed vs. China after Pinoy fishermen&#8217;s gears seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191219\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-191219 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a media statement, the DFA said it filed the note verbale on Thursday. It did not elaborate on the incident but say the CCG illegally seized the Filipino nationals&#8217; fish aggregating devices called payaos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomiphene online <a href=\"https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/clomiphene.html\">https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/clomiphene.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> (File <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=56252750\">Photo By Patrick Roque, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The illegal confiscation of some Filipino fishermen&#8217;s equipment at the Scarborough Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc) by the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) last May prompted the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to lodge a diplomatic protest against China.<\/p>\n<p>In a media statement, the DFA said it filed the note verbale on Thursday. It did not elaborate on the incident but say the CCG illegally seized the Filipino nationals&#8217; fish aggregating devices called payaos.<\/p>\n<p>It then castigated China&#8217;s &#8220;continuing illicit issuances of radio challenges Philippine aircraft conducting legitimate regular maritime patrols in the West Philippine Sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy levitra super force online <a href=\"https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/levitra-super-force.html\">https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/levitra-super-force.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Scarborough Shoal, also known as the Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal in Filipino, is a triangle-shaped coral reef situated 124 nautical miles off Zambales.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2016 landmark decision, the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled that both Filipinos and Chinese, as well as other fishermen from other countries, have &#8220;traditional fishing rights&#8221; at Scarborough Shoal and that China cannot restrict access in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Since a standoff between some Chinese ships and the Philippine Navy in 2012, China has maintained a steady presence in the area. The Filipino fishermen were only able to operate back after Manila&#8217;s pursuit of friendlier ties with China in 2016, which paved for a temporary arrangement between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/articles\/1073792\">READ: Duterte-Xi verbal fishing deal still legally binding: Palace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Philippines since 2018 had been pushing for a permanent fishing agreement at the Bajo de Masinloc but no accord has been signed yet by all the claimant states.<\/p>\n<p>What comes close is the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (COC) that is being crafted by Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy flagyl online <a href=\"https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/flagyl.html\">https:\/\/b-nutritious.com\/lib\/thumbscroller\/png\/flagyl.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> The said COC envisions a set of regional rules to avoid conflict and confrontation in the contested waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The illegal confiscation of some Filipino fishermen&#8217;s equipment at the Scarborough Shoal (Bajo de Masinloc) by the Chinese Coast &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287564,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266011\/revisions\/287564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}