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Fishermen who trawl for catches near the north-eastern Chinese city of Tianjin<\/span> will have their claims heard by a local court, four years after a major spill<\/a> at an oilfield owned by US producer ConocoPhillips and state-owned China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC) damaged rich fishing grounds in the Bohai Sea.<\/p>\n

The spill at the Penglai 19-3 oilfield in 2011 polluted around 5,500 square kilometres of Bohai Bay, according to China\u2019s State Oceanic Administration, and at the time was said to be most serious<\/a> marine ecological incident in China.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> in Chinese newspaper thepaper.cn, <\/i>a lawyer for the fishermen said it is the first time that a Chinese court has agreed to hear the case of Tianjin<\/span> fishermen. A lawsuit was lodged on July 22.<\/p>\n

The Tianjin<\/span> Maritime Court will hear the case, through which five fishermen are demanding\u00a0120,000-200,000 yuan (US$19,000-32,000) each\u00a0in compensation from the oil companies for financial losses, and a further 20,000 yuan in costs.<\/p>\n

If the first five fishermen to have their cases heard are successful, then many more could follow, said Wang Haijun, one of the lawyers who is working on the lawsuit.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve got 160 cases we want to bring,\u201d said Wang. \u201cThese five are just to test the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the past four years Tianjin<\/span> fishermen failed to win compensation that was awarded to other fishing communities on China\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n

Fishermen and their families in Liaoning and Hebei got a payout totalling one billion yuan<\/a> after the oil companies agreed settlements or had to pay compensation following state-sponsored lawsuits.\u00a0But this payout did not extend to many affected areas in Shandong and Tianjin<\/span>, also on the Bohai Sea.<\/p>\n

Luan Shaohu, deputy chair of the Shandong Lawyers\u2019 Association, told thepaper.cn<\/em>: \u201cFishermen from Tianjin<\/span> work the entire Bohai Sea, including where the oil leak happened, and [the spill] definitely affected catches.\u201d\u00a0In Luan\u2019s view, there is a good chance that the Tianjin<\/span> fishermen will win the case.<\/p>\n

According to a statement submitted by a local Communist Party committee on behalf of one of the fishermen, the size and quality of catches for 77 boats fell sharply after the oil spill, and incomes dropped in tandem.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven today, mantis shrimp<\/a> we catch taste of oil and nobody wants to buy them,\u201d said Liu Dongshun, one the five Tianjin<\/span> fishermen that will have their cases heard.<\/p>\n

This article is republished from The Paper.\u00a0Read the original version here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read an update on this story: <\/strong>Bohai legacy highlights weakness in China’s marine law<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more of C<\/em>hina Dialogue\u2019s reporting on the Bohai Sea oil spill:<\/em><\/p>\n

Transparency test in the Bohai Sea<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The battering of the Bohai<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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