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Fishing Trawler Cluster

josip · 2016-02-23 14:39:48

Why are there lots of foreign (Russian) trawlers clustered far off our southwest coast? http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home Is it because of the 200 mile exclusion zone? Why are they in the one spot and not scattered around? Why are they mostly Russian?

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23-02-2016 3:39pm

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josip

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Why are there lots of foreign (Russian) trawlers clustered far off our southwest coast?

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home

Is it because of the 200 mile exclusion zone?
Why are they in the one spot and not scattered around?
Why are they mostly Russian?

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#2 24-02-2016 3:47am
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If one is a factory trawler / ship won't the rest of the fleet stay within reasonable range of it to be offloading on a consistent basis?

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#3 24-02-2016 9:42am
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They are mostly factory ships at Blue whiting, there are rsw Vessels working the same area, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese but they are usually only there a couple of days and then steam back to Norway etc to unload

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