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Action Gallery
Check here for the latest action photographs, straight from the
M/V Arctic Sunrise.
click on the photographs for larger images.
20 March 2000
Curtis, mate on board the M/V Arctic Sunrise, unhooks and frees
a Patagonian toothfish that had been caught on a pirate vessel's
longline in the Southern Ocean.
Ross on the deck of the Sunrise, coiling some of the five kilometers
of longline confiscated by Greenpeace on that day.
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Greenpeace activists freed 58 toothfish, also known as Chilean sea
bass, in the process.
Fish are not the only species that get caught on a pirate's
long line. Greenpeace found four rays hooked on this confiscated
line. 'Bycatch' is a serious problem associated with pirate fishing
in the Southern Ocean. Between 60,000 - 100,000 seabirds, many threatened
or endangered species, meet their deaths each year on these illegal
lines.
 Greenpeace
is calling for a moratorium on all fishing for toothfish and an
accompanying trade ban on the species until the problem of pirate
fishing in the Southern Ocean is solved, more is known about this
fish, and proper controls are put in place to ensure that pirate
fishing does not resume.
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4 March 2000
Greenpeace spotted the Grand Prince, a known pirate fishing vessel,
in Southern Ocean waters regulated by the Convention for the Conservation
of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) on 4 March. Greenpeace
followed the ship to the edge of CCAMLR waters and then returned
to seek out other pirate fishing vessels or their gear.
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1999
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In early 1999, Greenpeace caught an unidentified longliner illegally
fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean near Kerguelen Island.
Greenpeace tracked the ship, later identified as the Spanish-owned
Salvora, for 16 days and almost 3,000 nautical miles before it tried
to make a port call in the notorious pirate port of Mauritius. The
picture to the left shows the Salvora with the M/V Arctic Sunrise
in the distance. You can read a full chronology of last year's action
in the expedition section.
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The crew of the Salvora, caught illegally fishing for toothfish
in the Southern Ocean, attempt to hide their identity.
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Greenpeace activists pursuing the Salvora, unidentified at
the time, in the Southern Ocean.
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Greenpeace crew members try to get a closer look at the ship.
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The Salvora as first seen by the crew of the M/V Arctic Sunrise,
with a trail of sea birds. Thousands of sea birds die on longlines
set by pirate vessels each year.
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Same Ship,
Different Day
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At sea and under Greenpeace scrutiny the pirate fishing vessel
has covered its name and call letters.
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Heading into the port of Mauritius two weeks later the ship
reveals itself as the Spanish-owned Salvora.
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