QUITO –
Twenty crew members of a Chinese ship in Ecuador sentenced to long prison sentences. The authorities caught the Chinese earlier in the Galapagos islands with 300 tons of nearly extinct or endangered animal species on board, including approximately 6600 sharks.
The crew of the Fu Yuan Yu Ling 999 between one and four years the cell, said the court Sunday night. Also got the Chinese for 5.9 million dollars (nearly 5 million) in fines imposed for their involvement in illegal shing practices.
The Ecuadorian ministry of Foreign Affairs has an official complaint filed with Beijing over the presence of such ships in the archipelago. The Chinese ambassador in Quito would have indicated that his country everything it wants to “these prohibited practices to a halt.”