Naval Service Detains Another French-Registered Fishing Vessel off West Cork

13th May 2020

LE Ciara

A French registered fishing vessel has been detailed for alleged breaches of fishing regulations by the Naval Service.

The vessel was fishing approximately 120 nautical miles south-west of Mizen Head, Co Cork, last night when it was apprehended by the LÉ Ciara.

The Naval Service said that the vessel was being escorted to Castletownbere Co. Cork, where it would be handed over to An Garda Síochána on arrival.

The detention is the fifth this year by the Naval Service, as part of its service level agreement with the Sea Fishery Protection Authority.

As Afloat previously reported, a French-registered Spanish-owned vessel, Miss Jacqueline, was also detained by the LÉ George Bernard Shaw last month, about 180 nautical miles west of Mizen Head.

Last month, the EU maritime directorate had written to Ireland, questioning how Ireland could meet its legal obligations to control and check fish landings under guidelines related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Published in West Cork

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Lorna Siggins is a print and radio reporter, and a former Irish Times western correspondent. She is the author of Search and Rescue: True stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116 (2022); Everest Callling (1994) on the first Irish Everest expedition; Mayday! Mayday! (2004); and Once Upon a Time in the West: the Corrib gas controversy (2010). She is also co-producer with Sarah Blake of the Doc on One "Miracle in Galway Bay" which recently won a Celtic Media Award

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