내년도 한중 어업협상 타결…입어 규모 50척 축소<br /><br />Korea and China are cutting fifty fishing boats in each of their exclusive economic zone starting next year.<br />According to the nation's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the two sides have reached an agreement on reducing their annual fisheries quota, during their four-day bilateral talks held in the southern port city of Busan.<br />The deal allows the two countries to send up to a thousand-4-hundred-50 boats in each other's exclusive waters.<br />The ministry said the decision to decrease quota comes after governments' efforts to rein in illegal fishing by unauthorized Chinese boats along Korea's western maritime border.<br />On average some 400 to 500 Chinese vessels illegally fish in Korean waters every year. <br />
