Greenpeace praises efforts to fight illegal fishing

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Updated August 24, 2009 07:08:26

Greenpeace has praised member nations of the Forum Fisheries Agency for its efforts to try and stop illegal fishing in the Pacific. The agency has released details of "Operation Kurukuru 2009" which coordinated maritime surveillance in the air and on the water, to detect illegal and unreported fishing, smuggling and people trafficking, over a 10-day period. Two vessels were boarded with one in Tuvalu fined 10 thousand US dollars, and investigations into other possible breaches will continue.

Currently the Greenpeace ship "Esperanza" is in Cairns. It was to have left last week for Port Vila to continue its environment campaign in the Pacific. That trip has been delayed after its Captain was arrested, and later ordered to surrender his passport, after the ships involvement in a protest at a Queensland coal loading facility.

Presenter: Campbell Cooney
Speaker: Josua Turaganivalu, Greenpeace, Fiji

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