China’s Yellow Sea fish farms stoke anger in South Korea
- China installed multiple steel structures in the Yellow Sea Provisional Maritime Zone.
- A 2001 agreement established this zone for joint fishing and navigation, prohibiting other activities.
- Installations include two buoys in 2018 and a 2022 fixed structure featuring a helipad.
- Beijing claims these facilities function as commercial fish farms for aquaculture management.
- Seoul considers proportional countermeasures and plans to raise the issue during a maritime dialogue Wednesday.
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South Korea to raise Chinese presence in disputed area of sea during dialogue
SEOUL - South Korea will raise China's construction of sea structures off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula in a dialogue with Beijing on Wednesday, Seoul's Foreign Minister said. Read more at straitstimes.com.


S. Korea, China set for maritime talks amid tensions over steel structures in Yellow Sea
Korea and China were set to hold a working-level maritime dialogue in Seoul on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said, as tensions are building up over a set of steel structures Beijing has installed in their overlapping waters in the Yellow Sea. The talks come after the two countries engaged in a standoff in February in the Provisional Maritime Zone (PMZ) near South Korea's southwest coast, when Chinese authorities blocked a South Korean ship from …
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