JOINT INTERNATIONAL DETECTION AND ENFORCEMENT OPERATION STEMS ILLEGAL FISHING IN NORTH PACIFIC

During the past three weeks, two Canadian Air Force CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft have repeatedly scoured a 4.1 million square kilometre expanse of the North Pacific in search of vessels engaged in illegal, unregulated or unreported (IUU) fishing on the high seas. This year, the air patrols spotted and reported five vessels suspected of activities ranging from vessel identity theft to undocumented at sea transfers.