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Find out how your country plays a role in the illegal decimation of the
Patagonian toothfish.
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anyway?
Also, check out our of known pirate fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean.
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Mauritius
- Pirate port -- Port Louis is the No. 1 pirate port for toothfish.
In the 98/99 fishing season, an estimated 11,923 tonnes of toothfish
was landed there. Mauritius became the main port for illegal fishers
in around 1996 when South Africa placed sticter controls on illegal
toothfish longliners in their ports. While CCAMLR's estimations of landings
in Mauritius appear to have dropped from more than 20,000 tonnes estimated
in 1997/98, this is thought to be due to increased transshipping of
catches at sea. In early 1999, the Greenpeace vessel MV Arctic Sunrise
chased the pirate Salvora, found fishing illegally near Kerguelen Island,
back to Mauritius where it had offloaded toothfish a few months beforehand.
On that occasion, the Mauritius authorities refused it permission to
offload the 170 tonnes of toothfish it had onboard. Unfortunately, the
Salvora has now been repainted, renamed Polar and still offloads its
pirate caught toothfish in Port Louis.
- International trade -- Mauritius does not officially report
the volume, value and destination of its toothfish exports. Japanese
market statistics show that between in 1998 Japan imported 3066 tonnes
of toothfish from Mauritius. The US imported 537 tonnes of toothfish
from Mauritius in 1998. It is uncertain where the remainder of Mauritius'
toothfish are exported. Some is known to be exported to South East Asia
via Singapore. It is suspected that much of the illegal toothfish is
exported from Mauritius to Chile and Argentina for processing and re-export.
Contact the government of Mauritius.
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