Bold Chinese vessels frustrate Taiwan’s fishing communities

Taiwanese fisherman Wang Chia-wen contends with Chinese incursions every day. Fish stocks around Taiwan’s tiny Matsu archipelago, a chain of rocky islands near the Chinese mainland, are crucial for residents’ livelihoods. But the intruding crews are eating away at them. Island authorities are under-resourced and locals say they are helpless to stop the hostile competition that doesn’t respect the median line, an unofficial boundary in the Taiwan Strait that Beijing refuses to recognise.