Throughout their 70-hour surveillance work in Philippine waters and the western Pacific, the team detected 88 potential illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing violations
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Roy Ortega, officer-in-charge of the Fisheries Resources Management Division at BFAR, described the two-week joint aerial patrol using Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Dash-8 surveillance aircraft an “eye-opener” on what’s happening out at sea. Tracking fishing vessels at sea is a worldwide practice called the Vessel Monitoring System . TheThe mission is part of Canada’s Dark Vessel Detection project. .
“From our statistics, there are more or less 600 commercial fishing boats registered in the area,” said Ortega. The BFAR official said that the 34 violators they found during the aerial patrol were “not supposed to be there.” “We can see the profile of the vessel, so we can tell if it’s large small,” John Boyce, sensor operations manager at PAL Aerospace, told reporters inside the aircraft.
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