The German-registered factory ship Helen Mary was detained by the European Fisheries Control Agency patrol vessel Ocean Protector off the southwest coast of Ireland for allegedly having a defective ladder in breach of EU fishing laws. The vessel is being escorted to Cork harbour for inspection of its catch, equipment, and logbook.
agency has detained a supertrawler off the southwest coast of Ireland for alleged breaches of EU fishing laws and is escorting it to
The 116m-long fishing vessel, which is registered at Rostock in northern Germany, was fishing some 65 nautical miles off the Mizen Head for scad or horse mackerel, when she was detained by the Ocean Protector when fishery protection officers were unable to board her. The supertrawler, which has a crew of more than 50 and a storage capacity for 7,000 tonnes of fish, has been listed by Greenpeace as one of a list of 20 “monster trawlers” that the environmental group alleges is responsible for overfishing off the west coast of Africa and elsewhere in the Atlantic.
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