Indonesia - Korea to Build Marine and Fisheries Institute in Karawang

Antara News, Wed, July 6 2011

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Jakarta, July 6, 2011 (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) and Korea Marine Institute (KMI) agree to build national Marine and Fisheries Institute in Karawang, West Java.This educational institution which was built in 2012 is the development from Fisheries College (STP) and Fisheries Academy (AP) to become a world-class educational institution. "To realize this program, Karawang Regency has prepared a land area of 65 Hectares. While the budget of 300 billion rupiah will be borne together by the Indonesian and Korean Government for each 150 billion rupiah," explained Head of Marine and Fisheries Human Resources Development, Syarief Widjaya, after opening Indonesia-Korea Ocean and Fisheries Forum (IKOFF) today (6/7) in Jakarta.

The effort to realize this program, KKP previously has done the partnership with the Ministry of National Education so that this marine and fisheries institution can be a world-class higher educational institution and become the Top ten marine and fisheries vocational education in the world. This higher educational institution aims to make superior and characteristic experts to compete in the world of work for national or international level, as well as for make the young enterpreneurs in marine and fisheries sector.

The International Seminar of Indonesia Korea Ocean and Fisheries Forum (The 1st IKOFF) filled with the explanation from leading experts and practitioner in marine, maritime, and fisheries from Indonesia and Korea with three sub-themes, which are sustainable preservation and development of marine and coastal; new source of technology and creative activities of marine. One day before, KKP and KMI has done the signing of Letter of Intent (LoI) to increase partnership in marine and fisheries sector between Indonesia and Korea. This agreement signed by Secretary General of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP), Gellwynn Jusuf with the President of Korea Maritime Institute (KMI), Hak So Kim, also witnessed by Chairman of Land, Transportation, and Marine Affairs Comission of the Korean House of Representatives, Kwang Keun Chang.

KKP and KMI will be looking for the opportunity to increase partnership in scientific and marine and fisheries research, development and enhancement the capacity of marine technology, marine resources for alternative energy, sustainable and integrated management of marine ecosystem and coastal, fisheries biological resources conservation, the establishment of marine policy study centre, including marine and fisheries," explained Fadel. According to him, these opportunities will be achieved by training, workshop and increasing of other building capacity, such as research and joint development, exchange of experts, information, and related data. For the implementation of this agreement, KKP and KMI will appoint each vocal point to discuss more about operational stride.

For further information, please contact Dr. Yulistyo Mudho, M.Sc, Head of Data, Statistics and Information Center, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (Mobile: 0811836967)

South Korea tightens rules to combat illegal whaling

BBC News, 3 January 2011

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South Korea says it is tightening rules to combat illegal whaling.

South Korea banned commercial whale hunting in 1986

Although commercial whale hunting is banned in the country, the trading of whales that are found dead is still legal.

The new rules will require fisherman to report to police immediately if they discover dead whales in their nets or washed ashore.

The move comes after critics said some fishermen were exploiting a loophole in the law.

The new regulations mean that, from Monday, samples from all dead whales must be given to the authorities for testing, and their meat can only be sold after a full investigation into how the animal died.

Those who catch dead whales will also only be allowed to process and sell them at state-designated facilities, South Korea's agricultural ministry said.

The new law aims to tackle a "growing amount of illegal whale hunting" around the country, it said, according to AFP news agency.

"Once the new measures go into effect, Seoul will be able to better meet allegations of lax oversight raised by some countries and the IWC (International Whaling Commission), and lay the foundation for monitoring marine resources around the Korean Peninsula," a ministry official was quoted by Yonhap news agency as saying.

South Korea used to allow commercial whaling but banned it when the IWC implemented a global moratorium in 1986.

China fishing boat capsizes in scuffle

The Jakarta Post, The Associated Press, Seoul | Sat, 12/18/2010

Sinking boat: A Chinese fishing boat is seen capsized in western South Korean waters off Gunsan, South Korea, Saturday. The fishing boat capsized in a maritime scuffle with a South Korean coast guard ship trying to curb its illegal fishing activities Saturday, killing one fisherman and leaving two others missing, a South Korean official said.

A Chinese fishing boat capsized in a maritime scuffle with a South Korean coast guard ship trying to curb its illegal fishing activities Saturday, killing one fisherman and leaving two others missing, a South Korean official said.

About 50 Chinese fishing boats were illegally fishing in western South Korean waters off Gunsan city, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) south of Seoul, when the South Korean ship approached them, coast guard spokesman Ji Kwan-tae said. One of the boats intentionally hit the larger coast guard ship to allow fellow Chinese vessels to sail back to their waters, and then capsized, he said.

Eight people from the capsized boat were plucked from the waters, but one was unconscious and later died, Ji said. Coast guard rescue boats and helicopters were dispatched to the area to locate the two missing Chinese sailors, he said.

Ji said coast guard officers fought with fishermen on other Chinese boats who wielded steel pipes, and four of the officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

A man answering the phone at the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center in Beijing confirmed that a Chinese fishing boat capsized Saturday in the Yellow Sea and two Chinese fishermen were missing. China has dispatched a rescue boat and has asked South Korea to send boats as well, he said.

When asked about South Korea's claim that the Chinese boat was fishing illegally, the man said other information about the incident was still being collected. He did not give his name, as is common with Chinese officials.

Calls to the Chinese Embassy in Seoul went unanswered.

More than 300 Chinese fishing boats are captured for fishing illegally in South Korean waters every year, according to South Korea's coast guard. In 2008, one South Korean coast guard officer was killed and six others injured in a maritime scuffle with Chinese fishermen engaged in unauthorized fishing in South Korean waters.

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Indonesian Fishermen Among Missing in Trawler Accident off Antarctica

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Four fishermen were dead and 18 missing after a South Korean deep-sea trawler with 42 crew members on board sank Monday off Antarctica, Maritime New Zealand said.

The South Korean deep-sea fishing vessel "No 1 Insung"
in better times. The fishing boat sank on Monday in freezing
waters near Antarctica, New Zealand and South Korean
authorities said. Twenty members of the crew have been
rescued by a ship. (Reuters Photo)

"The vessel is believed to have gone down at 6:30 am (1730 Sunday GMT) about 1,000 nautical miles north of McMurdo (Antarctic base)," Maritime NZ spokesman Ross Henderson told AFP. "We have 20 alive, four deceased and 18 missing."

Henderson said all vessels in the remote area had been asked to steam to the site where the ship went down to assist the search for survivors.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion plane was also being sent to the area, he said.

Henderson said New Zealand authorities received no distress call before the ship sank. He did not know how the survivors were rescued.

"Whether it's in lifeboats, whether they've been picked up by other vessels is unclear," he said.

"Details are very scant at this stage."

A coastguard spokesman in the southern South Korean port of Busan, where the ship is based, told AFP there were eight Koreans, eight Chinese, 11 Indonesians, 11 Vietnamese, three Filipinos and one Russian on board.

He identified the ship as the 614-ton Number One Insung.

Another South Korean fishing boat was involved in the rescue after reporting the accident to its home port, the spokesman said, and it also asked for help from New Zealand.

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S.Korean naval ship sinking after collision-report

Antara News, Thursday, November 11, 2010

Seoul (ANTARA News/Reuters) - A South Korean navy ship was sinking off the country`s southwestern coast, with two of the sailors on board missing, after it collided with a fishing boat, Yonhap news agency reported early on Thursday.

The accident took place 5.4 nautical miles north of the port of Jeju on the southern island of Jeju at around 10:50 p.m. (1350 GMT) on Wednesday, Yonhap quoted a military official as saying.

It said 28 of the 30 sailors on board had been rescued while the other two were missing, citing the official.

The accident took place as leaders from the Group of 20 major economies and international organisations were due to start a two-day summit in the capital Seoul.

South Korean diver missing in Bali

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 09/05/2010 4:57 PM

Search workers were still looking for a South Korean tourist who went missing when he dived in Tanjung Benoa, Bali, on Saturday.

Denpasar Search and Rescue head of operation I Gde Ketut Ardana told Antara news agency that the South Korean, identified only as Kim (30), went missing during a diving activity with a local instructor on Saturday afternoon.

The instructor, Beruntung, told the police that he thought that the South Korean was tagging along behind him for around 20 minutes before he realized the tourist was gone.

Ardana said that the joint search would continue for the next seven days.

Three Indonesians Dead After Boat Sinks in Southern Ocean

Jakarta Globe, August 18, 2010

 The bodies of three Indonesian fishermen have been recovered from the icy Southern Ocean after the South Korean trawler Oyang 70, pictured here in an undated file photo, sank near New Zealand. (Reuters/New Zealand Defense Force/Handout)    
       

Wellington, New Zealand. Three crewmen are missing and three bodies have been pulled from cold southerly waters east of New Zealand after a South Korean fishing boat sank early Wednesday morning, officials said.

Some 45 other crew members — a mix of Korean, Indonesian and Filipino nationals — were rescued and taken aboard a New Zealand vessel that was fishing in the area at the time about 700 kilometers east of South Island.

The ship’s master is among the three crew of the Oyang 70 who have not been found, said New Zealand’s Rescue Coordination Center spokesman Mike Roberts.

“We have so far recovered five life rafts but have been advised there was a sixth life raft on board,” he said. “We remain hopeful of locating the three missing men.”

The three recovered bodies were all Indonesian crewmen.

An air force Orion maritime surveillance airplane reached the search area midmorning where six fishing boats were involved in the search effort.

Air Force spokesman Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki said conditions were calm but very cold and low-lying sea fog was blanketing the search area.

New Zealand’s Rescue Coordination Center ordered the search after receiving an alert from the vessel’s emergency position-indicating radio beacon. Vessels nearby also picked up a mayday call from the stricken vessel.

Roberts said weather conditions did not seem to be a factor in the sinking of the 82-meter fishing factory ship.

“We understand she was trawling, recovering her fishing gear with fish in the nets, and she suddenly capsized and sank within 10 minutes,’’ he told National Radio.

Oyang 70, a 38-year-old vessel registered on the Korean Shipping Registry, is owned by Sajo Oyang Corp., a company incorporated in Korea. Oyang 70 has operated in New Zealand waters since the 1980s under charter to New Zealand-based company Southern Storm (2007) Ltd.

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Two Indonesian sailors become heroes in South Korea

Antara News, Thursday, April 22, 2010 15:36 WIB

Seoul (ANTARA News) - Two Indonesian sailors are deemed heroes for South Korea after their trawler went down, along with five other South Korean sailors, following a collision with a Cambodian cargo ship in the West Sea, a local newspaper said Wednesday.

The trawler, Geumyang No. 20 with those Indonesian sailors working on it, was involved in the rescue operation for the victims of the sunken South Korean naval ship, Cheonan, 20 years ago. Seven victims are still missing until Wednesday, including an Indonesian and two others had been found dead.

The two Indonesian sailors, Lambang Nurcahyo (36) who has been found dead, another one Yusuf Harefa (36) who is still missing. The government of South Korea has through its embassy in Jakarta has contacted their family members in Indonesia.

The Korea Times, in its editorial, Wednesday, regrets the fact that the nation and government are mourning the loss of the fallen 46 victims of the sunken naval ship Cheonan, but have forgotten Geumyang`s sailors. The naval ship sank after an as yet still need to be explained the reason what has made it went down. Analyzes have been circulated in this country, saying it sunken by a North Korean torpedo sent from a submarine.

The South Korean government, through its embassy in Jakarta, has contacted the family members of the victims and expressed deep regrets over the tragedy. The government says both Korean and Indonesian victims will get the same treatment in accordance with the law.

The two Indonesian sailors were part of some 500,000 Indonesian migrant workers in South Korea presently.

An Indonesian body found in Yellow Sea

Antara News, Sunday, April 4, 2010 03:22 WIB

Seoul/Incheon (ANTARA News) - South Korea`s Coast Guard on Saturday discovered the body of a second crew member from a fishing boat that sank in the Yellow Sea while returning from a search for clues to last week`s naval disaster.

The body, found floating 50 kilometers southwest of Daecheong Island, has been identified as that of 35-year-old Yusuf Haaefa of Indonesia, a crew member aboard the 99-ton Kumyang 98 fishing boat that sank late Friday, the Incheon Coast Guard said.

The fishing boat, with a crew of nine including two Indonesian nationals, was one of several vessels employed by authorities to help search for evidence that could shed light on why the 1,200-ton Navy corvette Cheonan sank on March 26 near the maritime border with North Korea.

The Taiyo-1 -- a Cambodian-registered freighter -- has been detained by authorities in relation to the sinking of the South Korean fishing boat. Earlier in the day, the Coast Guard found the body of 55-year-old crew Kim Jong-pyong not far from where the latest recovery was made.

The Coast Guard is currently using helicopters and patrol boats to search for the other members of the Kumyang 98 crew, with the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to pitch in with three fishing control vessels.

The Navy, meanwhile, said it discovered the hull of the ill-fated fishing boat 48 kilometers southwest of Daecheong and attached a marker buoy to identify it location.