COAST GUARD BOARDS CANADIAN VESSEL FISHING ILLEGALLY

Sector Detroit
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Date: Dec 2, 2005

Contact: LT Fawcett
(313) 568-9542

COAST GUARD BOARDS CANADIAN VESSEL FISHING ILLEGALLY

LAKE HURON – U.S. Coast Guard units in partnership with Michigan Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian authorities from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources interdicted a Canadian fishing boat found to be illegally fishing in U.S. waters on November 29th  and 30th 2005, approximately 25 miles east of Harbor Beach, MI on the U.S-Canadian border.

The US Coast Guard Cutter HOLLYHOCK spotted the Canadian-flagged commercial fishing boat L & R setting nets approximately 200 yards inside U.S. waters.  The HOLLYHOCK then coordinated surveillance of the nets and boat with Coast Guard helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Detroit.

On the morning of November 30th, Coast Guard Members from Station Harbor Beach, MI conducted a boarding of the L & R, the first boarding of a Canadian fishing vessel in U.S. Waters in recent memory.  A “haul back” of the nets from U.S. waters was witnessed and documented by both U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian authorities.

A case package is being forwarded to both U.S. and Canadian authorities for action.

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