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Norwegian trawler arrested

M/S Traal (photo from http://home.no/traal/)

The vessel M/S Traal was last Friday arrested for illegal fishing in the Russian part of the Barents Sea.

Location

The vessel was taken to Murmansk Friday and got a fine of more than one million Norwegian kroner, reports Haugesunds Avis.

M/S Traal has its homeport in Skudeneshavn in Southwestern Norway.

- One day earlier this week we were sailing inside an area that was set to be a non-trawling zone, says the vessels’ captin, Helge Eriksen to Haugesunds Avis.

The vessel left Murmansk on Saturday. M/S Traal was fishing capelin in the Barents Sea.