Your current location:HOME >business >Philippines blames China for loss of giant clams in disputed shoal and urges environmental inquiry 正文
TIME:2024-05-21 16:40:19 Source: Internet compilationEdit:business
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines blamed Chinese fishermen on Monday for a massive loss of
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines blamed Chinese fishermen on Monday for a massive loss of giant clams in a disputed shoal controlled by China’s coast guard in the South China Sea and urged an international inquiry into the amount of environmental damage in the area.
The Philippine coast guard presented surveillance photographs of Chinese fishermen harvesting large numbers of giant clams for a number of years in a lagoon at Scarborough Shoal, but said signs of such activities stopped in March 2019.
Parts of the surrounding coral appeared to be badly scarred, in what the coast guard said was apparently a futile search by the Chinese for more clams. The lagoon is a prominent fishing area which Filipinos call Bajo de Masinloc and the Chinese calll Huangyan Dao off the northwestern Philippines.
“Those were the last remaining giant clams that we saw in Bajo de Masinloc,” Philippine coast guard spokesperson Commodore Jay Tarriela said at a news conference.
The government wants to buy their flood2024-05-21 16:01
Mainland urges Taiwan to return to 1992 Consensus to resume dialogue2024-05-21 15:51
Colombia's capital announces new measures to cut water consumption as dry weather persists2024-05-21 15:36
Boeing pushes back on whistleblower's allegations and details how airframes are put together2024-05-21 15:31
Philippines blames China for loss of giant clams in disputed shoal and urges environmental inquiry2024-05-21 15:28
Sabalenka to face good friend Badosa in Stuttgart opener2024-05-21 15:20
Regular passenger flights between Taiyuan, Hong Kong to resume2024-05-21 14:58
China to speed up development of new quality productive forces: top legislator2024-05-21 14:53
Mohammad Mokhber: Who is Iran’s acting president?2024-05-21 14:39
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay: Endangered Bornean orangutan born in Florida2024-05-21 14:14
Storms damage homes in Oklahoma and Kansas. But in Houston, most power is restored2024-05-21 16:38
Police declare Sydney church stabbing a terror attack 'motivated by religious extremism'2024-05-21 16:35
IAEA warns that attacks on a nuclear plant in Russian2024-05-21 16:20
Photo exhibition in Macao displays ancient civilization in Shanghai2024-05-21 16:17
Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University2024-05-21 15:58
LaMelo Ball again considering ankle braces after injuries limited him to 58 games over two seasons2024-05-21 15:56
The pilots union at American Airlines says it's seeing more safety and maintenance issues2024-05-21 15:25
Over 11 million Chinese people benefit from major disease insurance2024-05-21 14:49
US overdose deaths dropped in 2023, the first time since 20182024-05-21 14:14
Junta shelling, airstrikes kill 25 Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state — Radio Free Asia2024-05-21 14:00