A Coast Guard boarding team interacts with the crew during their inspection of a squid fishing vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, October 2023. The Coast Guard recently completed the first high-seas boardings and inspections off the coast of Peru under a newly adopted multi-lateral agreement to monitor fishing and transshipment operations within the South Pacific Regional Fisheries
Management Organization (SPRFMO) Convention Area, a region which encompasses nearly a quarter of the Earth’s high seas. (U.S. Coast Guard video by USCGC Alder SR-UAS operator)
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