Argentina sinks boat

Argentina sinks Chinese fishing boat Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010, Argentina's coastguard chased and sank a Chinese barge that it says was fishing illegally in Argentine amnion on Monday.

In a statement, the coastguard said one of its argosy had accursed admonishing shots at the Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010 as it headed for all-embracing waters.

The coastguard said it had aboriginal approved to accession a acknowledgment by radio. All 32 aggregation associates were rescued, it said.

China has bidding "serious concern" over the sinking.

Chinese adopted admiral agent Lu Kang said in a account that Beijing had "made burning representations" to Argentina, ambitious a absolute investigation.

Illegal fishing is a accepted botheration in the South Atlantic.

"The barge was hailed over radio (in Spanish and English) and both beheld and audio signals were beatific to accomplish contact. However, the barge angry off its fishing lights and proceeded to abscond appear all-embracing amnion after responding to again calls over assorted frequencies," the coastguard account said (in Spanish).

"On several occasions, the behind address performed manoeuvres advised to force a blow with the coastguard, putting at accident not alone its own aggregation but coastguard personnel, who were again ordered to shoot locations of the vessel."

China is the world's better bazaar for seafood and has the better long-distance fishing fleet, currently calculation added than 2,000 vessels, letters say.

In 2012 Argentina captured two Chinese argosy it said had been fishing illegally for squid in its absolute bread-and-butter zone. Admonishing shots were fired.

The latest adventure comes admitting Argentina's relations with China growing afterpiece in contempo years.
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