Surian Fishing War

Surian Fishing War
(Clockwise from top-left) Creeperian FA-11As and a B-9A bombing Rakeo in 1960; Rakeoian militiamen in 1959; Creeperian emperor Romero I with naval officers in 1961; Sequoyan freighter Cuhtahlatah sinking in Uweyaholigadu after Rakeoian attacks in 1959
Date 13 March 1959 – 2 July 1962 (1 year, 9 months and 2 days) Location Asequi Channel, Senvarian Sea, Southern Ocean Result Sequoyan and Creeperian victory
Belligerents
Sequoyah Creeperopolis	Rakeo
Commanders and leaders
Diwali Ustya Gawonii Atsvedy Aligali Dawalota José Mendoza Rivera Adolfo Suárez Figueroa José Galván Pérez Martín Carballo García	Mateo Sánchez García # Ricardo Cornelio Huerta Ernesto Magalhaes Jorge Cavalcante Avasandro Cortéz Majía
Units involved
Unknown 5th Flotilla 3rd Air Force Wing 55th Infantry Regiment	1st Flotilla Unknown Unknown
Strength
Unknown 36 ships, 9,550 sailors 24 aircraft, 48 airmen 2,500 soldiers	19 ships, 2,450 sailors 32 aircraft, 94 airmen 1,200 soldiers
Casualties and losses
Unknown dead Unknown dead	Unknown dead
Unknown civilians dead

The Surian Fishing War, sometimes referred to in academia as the Sequoyan–Rakeoian War or the Creeperian–Rakeoian War, was a conflict fought between the Surian nations of Sequoyah, Rakeo, and Creeperopolis between 1960 and 1962 in the Asequi Channel, Senvarian Sea, and Southern Ocean.

The war began on 13 March 1959 after the Asequi Channel massacre when the Rakeoian Navy killed many Sequoyan fishermen as a result of a fishing rights dispute between Sequoyan and Rakeoian fishers in the Asequi Channel which began earlier in the year.

Background

Aftermath and impact of the Creeperian Civil War

The Creeperian Civil War which lasted from 1933 with the San Salvador del Norte Incident until 1949 with the Battle of the Zapatista River drastically shifted the dynamics of Surian geopolitics. An estimated 41.2 million people died during the war and the war is well-known for the various war crimes committed throughout the duration of the war by both the National Council for Peace and Order (Miguelists) and the Catholic Imperial Restoration Council (Romerists), most infamously the De-Catholization, a genocide and ethnocide of Creeperian Catholics, Salvadorans, and political Romerists.

After the end of the war and the execution of several high-ranking National Council leaders, various far-left partisan groups formed in continued resistance against the newly formed government of the victorious Imperial Council. The civil war forced both sides of the conflict to drastically increase the size of the military, and by the end of the war, an estimated 23.5 million people fought in during the war in the military. After the war, the government of the Imperial Council weilded a military force of 5.9 million soldiers, and because of the ongoing partisan resistance and Third Senvarian War, the Creeperian government decided to retain a large military to combat internal rebel forces. Because of the vast size of the Creeperian Armed Forces, Creeperopolis was considered to be the strongest nation in Sur in terms of military power, especially after the annexation of the kingdoms of Atlántida and Castilliano in December 1949.

Despite the massacre of seven thousand partisan rebels in April 1957 ending the partisan resistance and the decrease fighting against Senvarian rebels, Creeperopolis continued to maintain a large military which caused concern among Creeperopolis' neighboring nations fearing potential Creeperian expansionist ambitions. Such fears were reinforced when the Creeperian Army was mobilized into El Salvador in 1956 to suppress a rebellion against the government there.

Rakeoian post-civil war economic struggles

The end of the Rakeoian Civil War in 1955 saw the parliamentary government collapse, a military dictatorship secure power, and the rise of pseudo-legal paramilitary groups. A program of full independence, to be achieved through near complete isolationism, was instituted by Mateo Jozefo in 1956. Almost immediately, the Rakeoian economy began to falter. A lack of coal imports plunged millions of people in Rakeo into darkness, stalled industries, and fields previously used for profitable exports went fallow. As a consequence, the remaining industries were pushed by the government to become more productive.

As political turmoil damaged more energy dependent sectors, fishing maintained profitability, and a record number of fishing vessels were deployed. When the agriculture sector rebounded, the price of fish fell considerably. In response, fishers began to search for better waters to fish in.

Order of battle

Sequoyan and Creeperian forces

Admiral Adolfo Suárez Figueroa, 1960

Creeperian battleship BIC San José, 1957

File:Maroto Botín FA-11A during the Surian Fishing War.jpg

A Maroto Botín FA-11A multi-purpose fighter jet at the Armando Rivera Obregón Military Base during the war

When Creeperopolis joined the war, Admiral General José Mendoza Rivera dispatched the 5th Flotilla, stationed in San Pedro, to intervene in the conflict on behalf of Sequoyah. The flotilla was under the command of Admiral Adolfo Suárez Figueroa and consisted of one battleship, two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, four destroyers, five submarines, one hospital ship, and twenty patrol ships, with 9,550 sailors aboard the ships.

• 5th Flotilla – Admiral Adolfo Suárez Figueroa
  • 1st Fleet – Vice Admiral Armando Piñón Castro
    • 1st Sector – Rear Admiral Enrique Larrañaga Gaitán
      • BIC San José – Captain Gustavo Barrocal Ortíz (battleship)
      • BIC La'Mariposa – Lieutenant Commander Jaime Zaldívar Casanova (destroyer)
      • BIC DA 48 – Commander Isaías Flores Domínguez (submarine)
      • BIC DA 77 – Commander Orlando Sandoval Ureña (submarine)
      • BIC María – Lieutenant Commander Armando Linares Tejón (patrol ship)
      • BIC Alberto – Lieutenant Commander Andrés Quijada Valdéz (patrol ship)
      • BIC Guillermo – Lieutenant Commander Nicolás Galván García (patrol ship)
      • BIC Alfonso – Lieutenant Commander Felipe Bermúdez Serrano (patrol ship)
      • BIC Francisco – Lieutenant Commander Pedro Quesada Salinas (patrol ship)
    • 2nd Sector – Rear Admiral Alexander Dávalos Hernández
      • BIC San Pedro – Commander Miguel Suñer Huerta (heavy cruiser)
      • BIC San Gerardo – Lieutenant Commander Adolfo Jiménez Hurtado (light cruiser)
      • BIC Citalá – Lieutenant Commander Esteban Espinoza Regalado (destroyer)
      • BIC DA 52 – Commander Leonardo Gutiérrez Carpio (submarine)
      • BIC Orlando – Lieutenant Commander Juan Alba Morazán (patrol ship)
      • BIC Pedro – Lieutenant Commander Fabián Alvarado Guerrero (patrol ship)
      • BIC Esmeralda – Lieutenant Commander Emilio Álvarez Valdés (patrol ship)
      • BIC Gloria – Lieutenant Commander Agustín Casanova Yagüe (patrol ship)
      • BIC Gustavo – Lieutenant Commander Mario Hurtado Melléndez (patrol ship)
  • 2nd Fleet – Vice Admiral Pío Fuentes González
    • 3rd Sector – Rear Admiral Jorge Obregón Salinas
      • BIC San Salvador del Norte – Commander José Duarte Menéndez (heavy cruiser)
      • BIC San Juan – Lieutenant Commander Gustavo Pérez Salinas (light cruiser)
      • BIC Reyes – Lieutenant Commander Fidel Galván Hernández (destroyer)
      • BIC DA 73 – Commander Emmanuel Ponce Castro (submarine)
      • BIC Cassandra – Lieutenant Commander Carlos Ureña Fuentes (patrol ship)
      • BIC Alexandra – Lieutenant Commander Humberto Carpio Flores (patrol ship)
      • BIC Sofía – Lieutenant Commander José Juárez Juárez (patrol ship)
      • BIC Rubí – Lieutenant Commander Manuel Enríquez Monterrosa (patrol ship)
      • BIC Rita – Lieutenant Commander Martín Avendaño Salinas (patrol ship)
    • 4th Sector – Rear Admiral Gonzalo Pérez Zaldívar
      • BIC San Francisco – Lieutenant Commander Jesús Mori Buenaventura (light cruiser)
      • BIC Anadesa – Lieutenant Commander Alberto Molina Figueroa (destroyer)
      • BIC DA 83 – Commander Enrique Valdéz Quijada (submarine)
      • BIC Mateo Figueroa Salinas – Commander Alfredo Carranza Regalado (hospital ship)
      • BIC Augusto – Lieutenant Commander Roberto Espiga Araujo (patrol ship)
      • BIC Lenora – Lieutenant Commander Bernardo Barrie Ulloa (patrol ship)
      • BIC Enrique – Lieutenant Commander Porfirio Delgado Reyes (patrol ship)
      • BIC Angelina – Lieutenant Commander José Gutiérrez Molina (patrol ship)
      • BIC Hernando – Lieutenant Commander Javíer Nariño Malespín (patrol ship)
• 3rd Air Force Wing – General José Galván Pérez
  • 3rd Air Force Division – Lieutenant General Tomás Ulloa Salinas (twelve Maroto Botín FA-11A multirole fighter jets)
  • 12th Air Force Division – Lieutenant General Gustavo Leigh Dávalos (twelve Maroto Botín FA-11A multirole fighter jets)
• 55th Infantry Regiment – Colonel Martín Carballo García (2,500 soldiers)
  • 55th Infantry Company – Lieutenant Colonel José Durán Tejón (1,100 soldiers)
  • 88th Infantry Company – Lieutenant Colonel Felipe Pérez Muñoz (1,100 soldiers)
  • 55th Engineer Group – Major Gustavo López López (20 soldiers)
  • 55th Logistics Group – Major Leonardo Fuentes Huerta (20 soldiers)
  • 55th Signal Group – Major Nicolás Rivas Soto (10 soldiers)

Rakeoian forces

• 1st Flotilla – Admiral Ernesto Magalhaes
  • 1st Fleet – Vice Admiral Juan Tala Alcabú
    • 1st Section – Rear Admiral Mateo Rayín
      • BCC Aleksandro – Commander Javier de Anjofilo y Doroteo (battleship)
      • BCC Tassis – Lieutenant Commander Oscar Tohà Medina (protected cruiser)
      • BCC Navurso – Lieutenant Commander Andre Yoma Vãquez (protected cruiser)
      • BCC Vefito – Commander Luis Otero Morales (cruiser)
      • BCC Antonio – Lieutenant Commander Gustavo Onofre Correa (destroyer)
      • BCC Manuel – Lieutenant Commander Antonio Silva (destroyer)
  • 2nd Fleet – Vice Admiral Horacio Roĥo
    • 1st Section – Rear Admiral Vihelmo Petro
      • BCC Roha – Lieutenant Commander Joaquín Uribe Hurtado (frigate)
      • BCC Moquah – Lieutenant Commander Abdan Videla Vargas (patrol boat)
      • BCC Tuscobia – Lieutenant Commander Enrique Ortiz Morales (patrol boat)
      • BCC Anokrea – Commander Andre Lopes Dias (frigate)
      • BCC Cadota – Lieutenant Commander Alejandro Luco Carlo (patrol boat)
      • BCC Nicabeyna – Lieutenant Commander Redro Rivera Cifuentes (patrol boat)
      • BCC Wissota – Lieutenant Commander Alberto Nieto Otaegui (patrol boat)
    • 2nd Section – Rear Admiral Jozefo María Rahl
      • BCC Beloná – Commander José Gona Montt (minelayer)
      • BCC Tanaco – Lieutenant Commander Franciso Aldea Fabres (minelayer)
      • BCC Peneto – Lieutenant Commander Manuel Torres Vidala (minelayer)
      • BCC Unlese – Lieutenant Commander Macros Fontecilla Pérez (ASW patrol boat)
      • BCC Crux – Lieutenant Commander Elias Palacios Barros (patrol boat)
      • BCC Oso – Lieutenant Commander Ascanio Mateo Cruz (auxiliary/rescue boat)

Conflict

Asequi Channel massacre

Main article: Asequi Channel massacre

Operation Pez

Main article: Operation Pez

Attack on Susla and Creeperian entry

Main article: Battle of Susla (1960)

Casualties and losses

See also

Creeperopolis portal Terraconserva portal

• Ajaki–Reykani War, a similar war over natural resources