Nine Indonesian nationals have entered guilty pleas at Darwin Local Court to illegally fishing in Australian waters. In August the Australian authorities located, intercepted and apprehended an Indonesian vessel fishing…
Kiribati's efforts to protect its tuna resources have been significantly strengthened with advanced training for 26 Monitoring Control Surveillance (MCS) practitioners. Officials from the Kiribati Police Maritime Unit (PMU) and…
A coordinated air, sea and land surveillance operation to combat increased illegal foreign fishing in Australian waters took place over 12 days in September throughout the Kimberley Marine Park (KMP),…
A boarding team from the Gambian Navy has detained a trawler found to be in breach of a stack of regulations – and to be fraudulently branding frozen products destined…
A hefty prison sentence of 26 months has been handed down by a court in New Zealand to a poacher who was at the centre of an extensive crayfish poaching…
Canadian fishery officers are leading their first mission in the Indo-Pacific, a region Canada has committed to protect through the Indo-Pacific Strategy. IUU fishing poses a significant risk to salmon…
There have been a few busy days on the edge of Argentina’s EEZ as a fleet of jigging vessels has continued to spill over the line, culminating in the arrest…
With 20,000 kilometres of isolated coastline, Western Australia is vulnerable to illegal activity, drug imports and invasive species. Now the WA Police (WAPOL) Force and the WA Fishing Industry Council…
The skipper of an Indonesian illegal fishing vessel has been convicted of offences under Australia’s fisheries and environment legislation, after being caught in May this year illegally fishing two nautical…
Norwegian trawler Arctic Swan, which had been detained by the Russian authorities last week, has been released and is on its way home. No serious problems were found during the…