“The request to expand the Galapagos Marine Reserve began in August 2017, with the arrest of the Chinese-flagged cargo ship Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999. The bodies of 7,639 sharks were found in the warehouses of this industrial vessel; this motivated a massive protest of the citizens”, indicated the More Galapagos collective in a statement.
National park rangers said they "alerted" the Ecuadorian Navy, which has jurisdiction over the islands, that Chinese refrigerator ship Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, was 34.5 nautical miles off the island “Nuestro hallazgo de 188 tiburones oceánicos de punta blanca implica que la tripulación del Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 estaba violando la prohibición de la CIAT, de la cual China es signataria”, señala una reciente investigación que revela con precisión qué especies marinas llevaba a bordo el barco chino Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, detenido enThe loot of the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, intercepted within the Galapagos Marine Reserve in August 2017, had included baby sharks and endangered species. Its crew was sentenced by an Ecuadorean court to prison terms and a multi-million dollar fine for illegally transporting wildlife.
The 2017 incident he referred to was the capture by the Ecuadorean navy within the Galápagos marine reserve of a Chinese vessel. The Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, part of an even larger fleet than the current one, was found to be carrying 300 tonnes of marine wildlife, mostly sharks. . 65 18 73 337 278 116 373 187 106