Baiei said that in an odd but recurring spectacle, at least once a year a deckhand on an illegal fishing ship from Taiwan, China, or Vietnam reappears in Palauan waters wearing a shirt touting a particular Palauan candidate. Another officer added that he arrested a pirate captain in 2016, and then six months later the same man showed up on a different boat. This time, the man was working as a deckhand.
