Antonio Vidal Suárez, Manuel Antonio Vidal Pego - Oceana

Viarsa I
Blacklisted on
CCAMLR IUU
list
Scrapped
IMO:
8001335
Arvisa I
Transformed into
patrol vessel
IMO:
8608470
Maya V
Government of
Australia
Blacklisted on
CCAMLR IUU
list
IMO:8882818
Names:
Rita
Rita 12
Merced
Eternal
Camouco
Saint Jean
Camouco
Flags:
Netherlands
Antilles
Uruguay
Flags:
Uruguay
01 Jul 09: IUU fishing Inside Division 58.4.3b
Blacklisted on CCAMLR IUU blacklist
7 Aug 03: Sighted inside Division 58.5.1
3 Feb 04: Apprehended 58.5.2
Australian fishing patrol vessels caught Vidals vessel Viarsa 1 red-handed in 2003 while illegally
fishing Patagonian toothfish in Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), worth around one million
USD, close to the McDonald islands. Vidal and the crew of this ship escaped criminal changes by an
Australian jury for illegal fishing activities after the vessel participated in a 4,000-mile getaway lasting
one month in the Southern Ocean. Finally the vessel was scrapped.
1999: Camouco, flagged to Panama arrested in French waters around the Crozet Islands. She was
subsequently convicted and fined, after the flag State, Panama, made an application to the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for prompt release on the posting of a bond of 8000000
FF . As Camouco, the vessel unloaded 200 tonnes of toothfish in Mauritius in June 2000.
Arvisa I returned to Mauritius to unload toothfish in August 2000, and again in February, April, July,
September and December of 2001. She landed toothfish in Maputo, Mozambique in March 2002 and
in May 2002 the vessel unloaded a further 217 tonnes of toothfish in Mauritius.
In January 2002, the vessel was sighted well within the CCAMLR Convention Area by the
Australian research vessel, Aurora Australis with no identification visible. She claimed to be the
Kambott, flying the Mauritian flag, but later proved to be the Arvisa I, flagged to Uruguay. In July
2003, the same vessel was apprehended by the French Navy in Kerguelen waters but by this time she
had temporarily reflagged to the Netherlands Antilles and was renamed the Eternal.
In January 2004, Maya V was apprehended in the by an Australian patrol vessel for poaching more
than 1.5 million USD worth of rare Patagonian toothfish from Australian territorial waters.
Blacklisted on CCAMLR IUU list
23 Jan 04: Fishing inside Division 58.5.2.Apprehended Crewmembers were found guilty and fined in
Australia.
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According to Lloyds, Viarsa I was belonging
to Vidal Armadores in 2003.
According to Uruguayan investigations,
Arvisa 1 was part of the Navalmar SA-fleet.
Navalmar SA, a Uruguayan based company
is a 100% subsidiary of Vidal Armadores
According to media reports, Maya V was
bareboat chartered to Navalmar SA of
Uruguay. Navalmar SA, a Uruguayan based
company is a 100% subsidiary of Vidal
Armadores