![Map showing the disputed Spratly islands in the South China Sea Spratly islands](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWZS7-qBFOlCd7VUOPU5DszqBEKPaY56n8NNjSUvaMlCfkxkU-t920miq7I7GjjCVaCD9iFaNM-KA9jK5WPOny5Yrg8pOBaZrtHvtvzXTRiGWeiztn6Dwv3uCztRwVV6DuTmJqLQ/s144/spratly.jpg)
China last week dispatched its biggest and most modern fisheries patrol vessel, a converted naval ship, to the South China Sea after a near collision between Chinese vessels and a US naval surveillance ship earlier this month.
"Faced with a growing amount of illegal fishing and other countries' unfounded territorial claims... it has become necessary to step up the fishery administration's patrols to protect China's rights and interests," the China Daily quoted an official as saying.
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