The Coast Guard (PCG) on Monday said its units from Coast Guard Station (CGS) Kota conducted a joint operation with the Navy and Marine Corps and repelled five unauthorized foreign fishing vessels from the waters of Kota Island on Sunday. The operation was launched after PCG personnel on Kota Island sighted a foreign fishing vessel preparing to conduct illegal fishing only about 200 meters from the shore, while another was loitering one nautical mile west of the island, both well within its 12-nautical-mile territorial sea, at around 2:15 p.m. Sunday.

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