Off the wire
• ASEAN police pledge greater joint efforts to tackle transnational crimes  • 1st LD: Egypt's Sisi opens "New Suez Canal" for ship traffic  • 2015 ITF Men's Tennis Circuit Fuzhou results  • EU researchers use chewing gum solvent to recycle polystyrene packaging  • Police strike causes cancellation part of start of Dutch league  • Chinese top bank's Internet financial products boom  • Italy's sports officials congratulate China for winning 2022 Winter Olympics  • 1st LD: 9 killed as helicopter crashes in north Pakistan  • Vietnam's top tennis player chooses new partner for US Open campaign  • Roundup: Kenya expects launch of flights by Chinese airline to boost tourism  
You are here: 　 Home

Indonesia to sink 70 illegal fishing boats

Xinhua, August 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Susi Pudjiastuti, Indonesian Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, said on Thursday that the ministry plans to detonate bombs on 70 illegal boats and apparatus as part to commemorate the nation's 70th Independence Day that falls on Aug. 17.

Susi said the plan to sink illegal fishing boats by detonating bombs was to show Indonesia's determent move to eradicate illegal fishing activities that have been rampant in the country in the past few years.

Besides, she added, the bombing on those ships would be a gift for the people for the Independence Day commemoration.

The minister's move to bomb the fishing boats was endorsed by President Joko Widodo. Endi