Thursday, October 08, 2009

Another crab poaching boat flying Cambodia's flag of convenience" seized

Four foreign poaching boats detained off Sakhalin coast

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 8 (Itar-Tass) - Four poaching boats, flying foreign flags, were detained by Russian borderguards off the Sakhalin coast over the past two days.

On Wednesday, borderguards cut short poaching by the Bansei schooner, registered at the port of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as well as by the Amur trawler, flying the Panama flag, in the Aniva Bay and the Tatar Strait. The Amur had 26 tonnes of live crabs in its hold and fishing tackle for their catch, while the Bansei schooner had 600 kilos of frozen crabs and 1.5 tonnes of frozen Canadian Pollack.

An appropriate report on the incidents was transmitted on Thursday by the public relations group of the Sakhalin borderguard agency of the Russian Federal Security Service.

On October 6, borderguards also detained the Argo-1 fishing schooner, flying the Sierra Leone flag, with 25 tonnes of crabs and the Lucky schooner, flying the Cambodia flag, with 15 tonnes of crabs. While the Lucky was escorted to the Nevelsk port, its owner changed its name for the Green Ocean due to unknown reasons.

On Thursday, live crabs (over 50 tonnes) were released into sea from poaching ships in the presence of officers of the Sakhalin borderguard agency. The prevented damage to Russian marine biological resources topped 30 million roubles. Investigation is in progress on all detained boats whose crewmembers are Russian citizens.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think Vietnam is the one who did it, by using cambodian Flags to blamed cambodia..