Liberia: Government Arrest Illegal Fishing Ship

25 February 2008

A Marine Control and Surveillance Project, jointly launched by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Bureau of National Fisheries aimed at preventing ships from engaging in illegal fishing on Liberian territorial waters, over the weekend, yielded fruits with the arrest and subsequent detention of SATA 70, and its crew members who were engaged in illegal fishing.

Journalists, who went to the Freeport of Monrovia over the weekend to investigate the matter, gathered that the ship was arrested while illegally fishing on Liberian waters by the MV, Rockfish, a ship operated by a private sector company called the Marine Protection and Rescue Services Limited.

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