So about the mandatory part, I guess maybe last time we visited, we also mentioned briefly, but Taiwan is committed to ratify C188, Convention No. 188, which is for work at sea, a convention by ILO. For that convention, Article 71 already says that the owners are supposed to provide communication ways for fishermen.But at the moment, most of the vessels, they only have satellite phones, but satellite phones are really quite expensive. And at the same time, most of the satellite phones are in captain’s room, and fishermen, most of them, don’t ever dare to go and ask.

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