Moscow – The Russian border guard service said Friday it had to fire warning shots to detain a Japanese boat for “illegal” crab fishing off Sakhalin Island.
The boat was detained in the country’s “exclusive economic zone in the Okhotsk Sea,” the border guard service said in a statement carried by Russia’s Interfax and TASS news agencies.
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