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3. Antonio Vidal Suárez and Manuel Antonio Vidal Pego’s infringements of fisheries legislation and involvement in IUU fishing Table 1: Antonio Vidal Suárez and Manuel Antonio Vidal Pego’s infringements of fisheries legislation and involvement in IUU fishing Current Former IUU incidents Owner Company, links to Vidal name Names/Flags Corvus Names: The Durban, South Africa, press reported in August 2007 that a North Korean-flagged fishing vessel, Lloyds names as current owner: Rep Line (Panama flag) Dorita the INA MAKA, was arrested in Durban Harbor with a cargo of nurse sharks on board and the owner Ventures S.A., Avenida de la Coruña Magnus fined R400,000 (about $60,000) after fishery and wildlife officers raided the vessel and found 18 Bajo, Santa Eugenia de Ribeira , 15960 / on CCAMLR Thule approximately 60 km of illegal gillnets on board. The owner, Meteora Developments Incorporated, was Spain, the company is based in the same IUU blacklist Eolo Red Moon based in Panama. In August 2007, the vessel owners pleaded guilty before South African magistrate V P Ngobe to two charges under the Marine Living Resources Act. Prosecutor Jabulani Cebekhulu address as Biomega Nutrición IMO: Black Moon said the charges related to the illegal possession of gillnets and providing false information. In 2007, the vessel was owned by the 7322897 Ina Maka Panama based company Meteora Galaxy Earlier IUU incidents: Development Inc. and was at that time Flags: operated by Vidal Armadores according to Uruguay Since 2001, the vessel has been denounced various times by the Antartic and Southern Ocean Lloyds. St Vincent & Coalition (ASOC), in 2002 for illegal unloadings to Pacific Andes in Jakarta. The vessel has been Grenadines Equatorial accused for names changes at the high seas to hide their catches. Guinea Sierra Leone North Korea Included in CCAMLR blacklist because of IUU fishing Inside Division 58.5.2 the 31 Jan 04. Antillas Reefer Current Flag: The "Antillas Reefer" was arrested by the Mozambican authorities in July 2008 after it was observed Owner 2008: Gongala Fishing JV Ltd. is a Panama fishing without a license off the central province of Zambezia on 23 June with 43 tonnes of sharks, JV with Vidal Armadores Uruguayan Forfeited to the four tonnes of shark fin, 1.8 tonnes of shark tail, 11.3 tonnes of shark liver and 20 tonnes of subsidiary Mabenal SA. government of shark oil. Total value of the catch around five million USD. Also found on board were 65 tonnes of According to Lloyds, the current vessel Mozambique bait (frozen squid and fish, bait and illegal deepwater long lines. The vessel was apparently targeting owner is the company Staplefield deep sea sharks. The Mozambican Fisheries Ministry has imposed a fine of 4.5 million US dollars on Investments, with the same address as IMO: the ship's owners and has confiscated the ship and everything on board. Biomega Nutricion: Avenida de la Coruña 8603688 18 Bajo, Santa Eugenia de RibeiraRibeira , 15960 / Spain. Belma Current Flag: The 27th of November 2008, the spanish Secretaría General del Mar found irregularities in the types IMO: Spanish of species fished by Belma. The vessel was chartered to Namibia under ICCAT rules to fish tuna/swordfish but was found with deepsea sharks on board. On December 5 9183104 th The Belma is owned by the company Vidal 2008, the Secretaría Armadores SA General del Mar initiated action to determine responsibilities. Trosky Names: In May 2008 Paloma V was inspected in the New Zealand port of Auckland, where the vessel Owner 2008: Gongala Fishing JV Ltd. is a (Cambodia flag) Paloma V intended to land Patagonian toothfish. During the inspection, officials retrieved information that JV with Vidal Armadores subsidiary showed that the Paloma V had been involved in IUU fishing in the past. Consequently, the vessel was Mabenal SA blacklisted by CCAMLR (Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) Blacklisted on CCAMLR IUU Flags: Cambodia 4
list IMO: 9319856 Galaecia sunk in July 2008 IMO: 9265316 Draco 1 (Panama flagged) Blacklisted on CCAMLR IUU list IMO: 9042001 Namibia Uruguay Flags: Spanish Names: Carran Hammer Chilbo San 33 Liberty Flags: Uruguay Togo North Korea Panama Blacklisted on CCAMLR IUU blacklist: 16 May 08: Supporting the IUU activities of IUU listed vessels, including refueling and re-supplying IUU-listed vessel Chilbo San 33. 22 Apr 09: Inside CCAMLR Division 58.4.3b: abandoned gillnet withPatagopnian Toothfish close to Trosky. July 9th, 2004 the fishing master of the vessel Galaecia was sanctioned 60.000 Euro and a suspension of fishing activities for six month for manipulating satellite devices and obstruction of inspections. Vidal Armadores paid the fine. Another sanctioning procedure was opened 12.12.2005 against Vidal, after Oceana informed the public and condemned the illegal transfer of supplies from the Spanish flagged Vidal vessel Galaecia to the Hammer, another of Vidal’s ships included in the CCAMLR registry of pirate fishing vessels. According to Spanish media reports, in October 2007, the Spanish government got a notification of a disembarkation of the illegal fishing vessel Chilbo San 33 in Mombasa the October 15th 2007. The Spanish government is evaluating proof that shows that the catches have originally been carried out by the vessel Galaecia. Galaecia was sighted and inspected in Cape Town in November 2007 with a gillnet roller fitted at the hauling station and it is quite possible that they are also involved in the nurse shark fishery. 16.05.2008: New Zealand fisheries inspectors gathered evidence that Paloma V participated in joint fishing operations including IUU listed vessels Ina Maka and Chilbo San. Further evidence shows that Paloma V is operating as part of a group of vessels, controlled by Vidal, to which also the Spanish flagged vessels Belma and Galaecia belong. 23.06. 2008: The Spanish government opened investigations into possible falsification of documentation and unloading documents of catches of the vessel Galaecia. The investigations are related to a load from Mombasa (Kenia), with the destination Sintes (Portugal) and that was probably later shipped to Vigo. October 2002 and January 2003: Undocumented landing of Patagonian toothfish in Jakarta and Mauritius Blacklisted on CCAMLR IUU list: Aug 04 : Undocumented landing, Malaysia 22 Feb 05: IUU Fishing inside Division 58.4.3a 28 Apr 05: IUU, Inside Division 58.4.3a 16 Dec 05: IUU Fishing inside Division 58.4.3b In October 2007, Feike, a group of South African natural resource management advisors published a picture in their newsletter, showing the IUU listed fishing vessel Chilbo San, unloading in Mombasa, Kenia. Feike reported that the vessel unloaded around 100 tons of Patagonian toothfish. 5 Owner: Vidal Armadores SA Between 07.10.2003 and 01.01.2008, registered owner for Draco 1 was the company Global Intercontinental Services. According to Lloyds, Global Intercontinental Services SA, Panama is a subsidiary of Vidal Armadores. According to other sources, the fishing vessel belonged from January 2007 to January 2008 to the company Vidal Armadores SA.
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