Watchstanders from the Coast Guard's Operation Bahamas and Turks and Caicos operation center coordinated with RBDF crews to board two commercial fishing vessels, El Ship and Angel Gabriel, which had 83 fishermen aboard. Keep Reading
NPG is an annual high seas U.S. fisheries international law enforcement operation designed to detect and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity, including large-scale high seas pelagic drift-net fishing. Keep Reading
U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement crews have already interdicted a record-breaking number of lanchas throughout the Gulf of Mexico for fiscal year 2020. Keep Reading
While operations to detect and disrupt IUU fishing occur year-round, the FFA holds four primary joint operations annually to combat IUU in the pacific. Keep Reading
The Coast Guard interdicted several foreign fishing vessels fishing inside the US exclusive economic zone on two separate occasions incidents in the first two months of 2020. Keep Reading
China by far is the nation with the largest of the distant water fleets. "Is it a nation-state action? Absolutely. Fishing has become an instrument of national power," Vice Adm. Abel said. Keep Reading