Japan seizes S. Korean fishing boat, arrests captain

The Japanese Fisheries Agency has seized a South Korean squid catching boat in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off Sado Island, Kyodo News reported on Monday.

The agency announced earlier in the day that the boat was seized because it falsified the amount of its catches when it fished in the water close to Niigata Prefecture, and the captain of the boat was arrested for violating the law concerning Japan’s fishing rights in its EEZ.