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Trawler arrested off Faroes
Faroese authorities boarded four French trawlers, the "Haltenbank Pairtrawl", the "Cap Saint Georges", the "Andre Leduc" and the "Bressay-Bank Pair Tr" in a closed area east of the island of Fugløy. Both of the two pair teams have been escorted to Kollafjørður. The Coastguard vessel "Tjaldrið" encountered the two pair teams fishing east of the Faroe Islands on June 19, 2016, and informed the police that the four trawlers were being escorted in having been apprehended in an area that had been closed to fishing a few days earlier due to the volumes of small fish in the region. The four trawlers docked in Kollafjørður in the night. The skippers of two of the French trawlers, owned by the Boulogne company Euronor, claim that they had not been informed of the closure and have declined to accept set penalties, so the case will go to court. The company’s legal representatives in the Faroes have already secured the necessary bond. The Faroese authorities had informed their French counterparts of the area closure, but the information did not reach the four trawlers until they had already been boarded. The two pair teams had only just begun fishing and have only a small amount of fish on board. Icelandic report with photos: http://www.jn.fo/fronsku+trolararnir+eru+komnir+a+kollafjord+myndir.html
Oil spill in Bergen
On Aug 15, 2014, at 8.10 p.m. the fire department Bergen was notified of an oil leak from the "Halte Bank II" which was moored at Norsk Stål. The fire department quickly gained control about the situation. A boat laid out oil booms so it did not spread, which was completed at 9.50 p.m. The fire department did not know yet what caused the leak. There were two engineers on board, but they have not been able to find the cause of the leakage from the engine room. The vessel had been towed into port from the North Sea last week due to a total loss of the engine power and was scheduled to sail from Bergen on Aug 20. Norwegian report with photo: http://www.ba.no/nyheter/article7531561.ece
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