[ENCORE] The 4,300-Kilometer Chase of an Illegal Taiwanese Fishing Boat (1989)

Taiwan loves seafood, and boats from this island trawl
for yummy ocean offerings thousands of kilometers away from
our shores. Taiwanese fishing vessels are very good at what they
do, but they weren't always so good in how they did it.
The use of drift nets, so-called "walls of death"
that entangle species like sea
turtles and dolphins, drew international ire. Taiwan boats
also did a lot of fishing in waters they weren't supposed to be
in. By 1989, the US Coast Guard had had enough and
launched a sting operation to
catch the violators. They ended up chasing a
Taiwan-registered ship for some 2,700 miles (or about 4,300
kilometers). Here's the story: 


Note: This episode was originally released on January 9, 2022,
under the title E1-S23 - Walls of Death.


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