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IRELAND: STAND OFF BETWEEN IRISH NAVY & JAPANESE FISHING FLEET UPDATE

(23 Aug 1996) English/Nat An Atlantic Ocean stand-off between the tiny Irish navy and a 30-strong Japanese fishing fleet was continuing on Friday morning after the arrest of two ships. Irish naval officers also boarded an unnamed Japanese vessel found inside the Irish box on Thursday. It was the first time the Irish authorities have detained Japanese fishing vessels inside the country's 200-mile (330-kilometre) "Irish Box" waters on suspicion of illegal fishing. People watched as the Japanese trawler, "Minato Maru", was escorted to the coast of Cork, southern Ireland, after being found in the Irish waters earlier this week. Its captain is expected to be charged with fishing about 100 miles off the Galway coast - inside Irish waters - and about eight tons of tuna have been found in its hold by naval officers who boarded the vessel. This prompted the first-ever arrests of any of their fleet by the Irish Navy, which has just seven fishery protection vessels. The two detained ships were allegedly at least 20 miles inside the Irish fishery limits. The "Minato Maru", detained Wednesday, and the "Shoshim Maru", detained Thursday, were escorted into port for a hand-over to waiting police and subsequent courtroom action. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It's very very difficult to make a detention in relation to these vessels, because we have to see them in contact with the gear, but we are now awaiting developments about 200 miles off the west coast to see what's going to come up in relation to this gear (Q: So it's a question to see who moves first?) Well, it's going to be a question of see who are the more patient, the Japanese or the Irish." SUPER CAPTION: Captain James Robinson, Irish Naval officer Meanwhile, the Irish Navy is continuing to monitor the activities of about forty other Japanese ships gathered in the area, just outside the two hundred mile zone. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Vigilance is essential because you can very quickly have fleets of large vessels in an area and suddenly they've gone again after the damage is done." SUPER CAPTION: Frank Doyle, Irish Fisherman's Organisation Both arrests were followed by 10-hour operations to haul in sets of longline fishing gear potentially extending up to 70 nautical miles from each ship. The impasse on Thursday was centred at a point off County Galway close to the Irish Republic's 200 mile fishing zone. An Irish Defence Force spokesman said the movements of the remaining Japanese ships - most positioned a mile or so outside the Irish zone - would continue to be monitored on a round-the-clock basis. The suspicion was that the longlines could originate in ships at anchor beyond the limit but end up well inside. The Japanese ocean-going fleet roams thousands of miles on a global basis in search of tuna, until now relatively unexploited in Irish waters. If convicted of illegal fishing, the Japanese captains face big fines and the confiscation of their fishing gear by Irish courts. It is reported that a further 30 Japanese vessels are grouped just outside Ireland's international waters. An Irish naval officer declined to admit that there is a coming standoff between Japanese fishing fleet and Irish fisheries protection vessels. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...