Kinmen fishermen in Taiwan: Wild yellow croaker should be sold at reduced prices; mainland fishermen often cross the border to fish

Wild yellow croaker is a specialty in the Kinmen waters. Local fishermen said that the price of yellow croaker doubles during the Chinese New Year and festivals. Mainland Chinese fishermen often cross the border to fish, and it is "very easy to get into trouble" when law enforcement vessels are chasing them for inspection. On the afternoon of the fifth day of the first lunar month (February 14), a mainland speedboat broke into the sea 0.86 nautical miles (about 1.6 kilometers) away from Beidong Island, southeast of Kinmen. It was pursued by a Taiwanese coast guard and capsized. Four people on board fell into the sea. , two people were sent to the hospital and died. The Kinmen boat capsizing incident lasted for more than 10 days, and eight rounds of negotiations between the two sides still yielded no results. A reporter from the "Lianhe Zaobao" visited Kinmen and discovered that the fishermen on both sides of the Xiamen and Kinmen were fighting over the high price of wild yellow ...