Sea Shepherd ship conducts citizen's arrest on Nigerian-flagged toothfish vessel in Southern Ocean
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ABC] - December 18, 2014 -
Sea Shepherd activists claim they have conducted a citizen's arrest in the Southern Ocean on a Nigerian-flagged fishing boat known for poaching Patagonian toothfish and other rare species.
Crew members from the environmental activist group's ship, the Bob Barker, said they intercepted the Thunder in a fishing area regulated by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) without a permit to fish.
The Thunder is on a list of boats deemed to have engaged in illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing activities by CCAMLR.
Bob Barker captain Peter Hammarstedt said he made radio contact with the captain of the Thunder on Wednesday afternoon, between Heard Island and Davis Station, just outside Australia's territorial waters.
"They then told me by radio they were not fishing, they were just passing through these waters," he said.
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