Those locations also tended to have fewer traditional village rules to limitfishing and national governments that are too weak to effectively enforce fishery regulations.
"Most of the new member states, and Greece, restrict fishing in their 12-mile limit to only their national fleets and so there is a precedent, " she told Mr Benyon.
She said Britain should introduce "higher standards of management and conservation" in respect of all fishing vessels that fish in its waters within a 12-mile limit.
The confrontation had been building for a week when Northern crab-fishing boats began to move south of the informal maritime border called the Northern Limit Line.
On June 16th, North Korean fishing boats once again moved up to the disputed buffer zone marked by the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea off the west coast but this time they and North Korea's navy kept their distance.