Ramon Novo Martinez (57) given permission to stay on his boat rather than be held at Cork Prison pending trial
Mr Martinez was also charged with a total of 17 separate offences for allowing his nets to exceed the permitted soak times of 72 hours allowed for the gear while fishing within the exclusive fishing limits of the State, contrary to Section 14 of the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006.
Mr Healy said the State had no objection to Mr Martinez being released on bail pending his trial, but he said that he was making two separate applications seeking to extend the detention of his vessel, Ortega Tres at Castletownbere where she was moored since being escorted there by the Naval Service.
Defence solicitor, Dermot Conway, said he was consenting in principle to the two applications, but he was not consenting to the specific terms, and he said that his client and the Spanish owners of the trawler strongly disputed the value of the catch, saying they estimated it to be worth €40,000.
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