A Taiwanese has been arrested for illegal fishing in the Philippines, police said Thursday as the two neighbors try to mend fences after the shooting death of another Taiwanese fisherman in May.

Tsai Po, 54, was detained on Tuesday while diving for lobsters off the coast in the Philippines’ Batan group of islands near the maritime border with Taiwan, provincial police officer Victor de Sagon told AFP.

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