Filipino fishermen caught in debt net in South China Sea row

Filipino fishermen caught in debt net in South China Sea row

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

12/20/2023

Filipino fishermen caught in debt net in South China Sea row

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Ever since he was a teenager, Filipino fisherman Rony Drio has been sailing into the heart of the South China Sea to fish at the Scarborough Shoal, a large atoll rich in fish stocks that has become one of Asia’s most contested maritime features.

But now, 56-year-old Drio said, it has become increasingly difficult and dangerous to fish at the atoll - some 200 km (124 miles) off the Filipino coast - because of aggressive action by China, which claims the disputed shoal.

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