Argentina captures a Spanish vessel with 320 tons of fish

The ship “Playa Pesmar Uno”, with 34 crew on board, has been captured for “illegal fishing”, according to Argentinian authorities.

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The vessel, a trawler of 63 meters in length, based in the port of Marín (Pontevedra), and owned by Pesmar, had in its cellar 320 tons of fresh and processed fish, “valued at a millionaire sum”.

The intercepted boat was “illegally fishing” in the Argentina’s EEZ. The fine that will be imposed would be between 5 and 10 million pesos (206,000-413,000 dollars).

The ship-owner maintains that the vessel “fishes in the Falkland’s but unload in Uruguay, so it is normal that its route follows a straight line across Argentinian waters”.

Source: El País