An illegal tuna purse seiner (in the background), the Queen Evelyn 168, was at the site of a transfer of tuna between her sister vessel and a refrigerated mothership (foreground), the Kenken 888. It is likely that a transfer of fish at sea involving an illegal vessel was about to occur, but the arrival of Greenpeace prevented it from taking place as the vessels immediately separated and fled. This occurred in a pocket of international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia. All vessels were flagged in the Philippines.
09 May 2008
Pacific Ocean

An illegal tuna purse seiner (in the background), the Queen Evelyn 168, was at the site of a transfer of tuna between her sister vessel and a refrigerated mothership (foreground), the Kenken 888. It is likely that a transfer of fish at sea involving an illegal vessel was about to occur, but the arrival of Greenpeace prevented it from taking place as the vessels immediately separated and fled. This occurred in a pocket of international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia. All vessels were flagged in the Philippines.

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