Chile’s Sernapesca Seizes 200 Tons of Illegally Caught Anchovy
Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service, Sernapesca announced that it seized over 200 tons of anchovies as part of preventive inspection work in the Punta Gruesa sector near Mejillones.
The operation saw five artisanal vessels caught fishing within the first mile offshore with prohibited fishing gear, per a release from Sernapesca.
The owner and skipper of each of the vessels was summoned, according to the procedures established in the General Law of Fisheries and Aquaculture, and the fishing resulting from the infraction and the fishing gear used were also seized...
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