JCG on alert against suspected red coral poachers

TOKYO, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel (front) keeps pace with a foreign fishing boat, suspected to have come from China to poach red corals, in the waters around the Ogasawara Islands, on Nov. 7, 2014.

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