EU protests Russian detention of Lithuanian registered crab vessel, seized outside Russia's EEZ
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton Oct 1, 2014
The new developments in the case of the F/V Juros Vilkas are that the EU has officially protested to Russia over the seizure of the vessel on the high seas, and a trial date has been set in Moscow for an October 7th hearing about the seizure and the claim the vessel was illegally fishing snow crab in the Russian zone.
Russian authorities detained the vessel in the high seas waters of the Barents Sea, and towed the vessel to Murmansk. The Russians claim 15 tons of snow crab was on board.
The vessel representatives in Lithuania admit that the vessel did stray over the Russian line for a very short time, perhaps an hour, but that no fishing was conducted on the Russian side. The vessel is part of a fleet put together by Yuri Silagin, owner of Arctic Fishing in Seattle to fish for snow crab in the "donut hole" part of the Barents Sea.
"We are concerned by the forced apprehension of the Lithuanian fishing vessel," an EU spokesman said...
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