Conservation activist group Sea Shepherd will head to Antarctic waters to target illegal fishing of Patagonian toothfish for a second season after a successful 2014-15 operations.
The campaign will be similar to the previous voyage, even baring the same name, Operation Ice-fish. We will once again intercept them in the southern ocean, shut down their illegal activities and to drag them back into the halls of justice.
Sea Shepherd Australia chairman Peter Hammarsteadt The operation’s first incarnation lasted five months and culminated in the scuttling of the ship Thunder, an alleged poaching vessel, after a 110-day pursuit by Sea Shepherd’s ship Bob Barker. Sea Shepherd Australia chairman Peter Hammarsteadt said last year’s operation was regarded as very successful.
He said the operation’s primary objective was to stop the “Bandit Six poaching vessels” that he said had operated in the Southern Ocean for more than a decade.
