Taiwan vessel found poaching

By Charlie C. Lagasca

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – A Taiwanese vessel, carrying some 200 kilograms of shark meat, was apprehended for poaching off Cagayan last Monday, the second time it was intercepted along the country’s South China Sea-Pacific Ocean coast. 

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said one of its patrol boats spotted the F/B JVP 1 while poaching off Babuyan Island.

The BFAR said the vessel,which had two Taiwanese and seven Filipino crewmen, has a pending case before the Aparri prosecutor’s office for poaching and illegal fishing two years ago.