Canada fights illegal fishing with Operation North Pacific Guard

Canada fights illegal fishing with Operation North Pacific Guard

Source: yahoo

11/2/2022

Canada fights illegal fishing with Operation North Pacific Guard

Credit: CNW Group/Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada

Canadian fishery officers have now completed their work in Operation North Pacific Guard, an annual international law enforcement operation on the high seas of the North Pacific. This multilateral operation conducted alongside the United States, South Korea and Japan aims to detect and deter illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing activity, which is a major cause of declining fish stocks and marine ecosystem destruction around the globe.

Fishery officers and air crew were deployed to Hokkaido, in northern Japan, where they conducted daily patrols over the Northwest Pacific, a region known for its density of high seas fishing activity. Fishery officers were also deployed to the US Coast Guard Cutter Munro from which they boarded and inspected fishing vessels alongside our international partners.

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