Bust boats chokka-block with squid

25 May 2016 - 09:13
By Mike Loewe

Three foreign-owned fishing trawlers have allegedly looted 600t of squid valued at R70-million as well as tons of fish from Eastern Cape waters. The discovery was made at the East London port on Monday when the government sent fisheries' vessels - backed by naval muscle - to capture two new industrial-strength Chinese fishing vessels - the Fu Yuan Yu 7880 and Fu Yang Yu 7881 - and a rusty Indonesian fishing vessel Run Da 617.

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