China continues to use large forces to threaten Vietnamese fishermen

This afternoon (June 4), in Hanoi, a representative of the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that China continued to use a large force, with about 35 iron-hulled fishing boats and the support of 2 Coast Guard ships, to fiercely prevent and use water cannons to threaten our fishermen from fishing in the area where China illegally placed the Haiyang Shiyou-981 drilling rig.

Chinese ships continue to use water cannons to threaten Vietnamese ships (Photo: Son Bach/Vietnam+)

However, Vietnamese fishing boats were skillful, proactive, and safely avoided the obstruction of Chinese ships and continued to stick to fishing grounds and increase production.

Providing specific information about the developments at the scene, a representative of the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department said that Chinese Coast Guard, Fisheries Administration, and tugboats continued to take drastic actions to obstruct and ram Vietnamese fisheries surveillance forces, spraying water cannons at them, and preventing Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ships from approaching the rig to protest China's illegal placement of the rig.

According to a representative of the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department, China still maintains a force of about 110-115 ships, including 35-40 Coast Guard ships, about 30 transport ships and tugboats, 40-45 fishing boats, and 4 military ships operating in the East-Southeast of the drilling rig.

In addition, according to the Vietnamese fisheries surveillance force, today (June 4), a reconnaissance aircraft was detected operating in the area of ​​the drilling rig.

A representative of the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department said that Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ships continue to organize high-intensity struggles, protesting and demanding that China withdraw the Haiyang Shiyou-981 drilling rig from Vietnam's waters, operating 7-9 nautical miles from the rig.

Vietnamese Fisheries Surveillance ship No. 795 was rammed 6 times by a Chinese ship and suffered damage to both sides of the ship and the engine shaft. It was recently brought ashore for repairs. (Source: Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department)

On the other hand, Vietnamese fishing boats still organize fishing, fight for fishing grounds, and protest China's illegal placement of the drilling rig in the southwestern area, about 20-25 nautical miles from the rig./.

According to Vietnam +