Cambodian vessel with Russian crew detained in Sea of Okhotsk
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY. Dec 3 (Interfax) - Russian border guards have detained a Cambodian poaching vessel in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Russian Federal Security Service Border Guard Department for the Kamchatka Territory reported on Wednesday.
"The vessel did not obey the lawful demands made by the border guards to stop and was detained after a 12-hour pursuit," the report says.
It turned out that the vessel is called RSh Bant, is registered in Phnom Penh and its crew is composed of 18 people, 17 of whom are citizens of Russia and one is a citizen of Ukraine. The vessel is intended for transporting live, and frozen, fish.
"The fishing and vessel documentation, the ship log-book, the permits to fish on the continental shelf, in the exclusive economic zone and territorial waters of the Russian Federation are absent aboard the vessel. The captain of the vessel did not make daily reports to the border guard services. The vessel did not pass through sea checkpoints," the report says.
Pieces of Kamchatka crab were found abroad the vessel. The captain refused to explain the violations. Administrative proceedings have been instituted against him.
The vessel was detained and taken to the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky port for investigation.