South Korea and China are cutting 50 fishing boats in each of their exclusive economic zone starting next year.<br />Seoul's Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries says the agreement was reached Friday at the end of their four-day talks in Busan.<br />The deal allows the two to send up to one-thousand-4-hundred-50 boats into each other's exclusive waters.<br />The ministry said the decision to decrease quota comes after 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 />
