Unnamed Chinese sand dredger caught off of Taiwan's Matsu forced to return stolen material
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/10/05
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Dredger forced to return sand and gravel to Matsu. (CGA photo)
On Oct. 3, the CGA caught a 6,000-ton Chinese sand-dredging vessel having illegally crossed into the waters off Matsu's Nangan Township. As CGA officers suspected the ship had been dredging sand and gravel from an area off Nangan, they seized the vessel, arrested all crew members, and forced them to return the ship's haul to the sea.
The Matsu Branch of the CGA stated that at 11 p.m. on Oct. 3, it received a report that a suspicious ship had entered restricted waters off Nangan Township, reported CNA. It dispatched three patrol cutters to the scene, and they soon encountered a ship with no marked name dredging sand and gravel 2.1 nautical miles (3.8 kilometers) off the coast of Nangan.
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