Philippine boat police anger China in fishing fightAFP
By Cecil Morella, June 16, 2014
Members of Philippine Maritime police Special Boat Unit, riding on US-made gun boats, maneouver during a training exercise in Honda Bay, off Puerto Princesa, Palawan island, southwest of Manila, on June 6, 2014 (AFP Photo/Ted Aljibe)
HONDA BAY (Philippines) (AFP) - After a short, intense chase, two Philippine police gunboats catch up with an illegal fishing vessel and circle it like menacing sharks, their armed commandos poised to rappel onboard.
"Their first reaction is to flee, but they stop once they realise they cannot out-run us," boat captain John Rey Zumarraga told AFP during a training exercise in Honda Bay off the Philippines' most western island of Palawan.
With top speeds of 83 kilometres an hour (45 knots), modern radar systems and elite marine officers, the 10-metre (33-foot) Special Boat Unit vessels are bad news for illegal fishermen.
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