Norway’s authorities have seized another Russian trawler off its Arctic coast, a Russian fishery official said Thursday.
“The Norwegian authorities have reportedly accused the ships’ crews of unauthorized fish reloading from two trawlers in Norway’s territorial waters,” a spokesman for the Russian Fishermen’s Union of the North said, adding the trawler was convoyed to the port of Tromso.
The Kapitan Pryakhin is the second Russian fishing boat seized in Norway this week. The Norwegian coast guard seized the Perseus-3 trawler Sunday for alleged overfishing, and convoyed it to the port of Vadso (118 miles from the Russian border).