Kolkata, Dec 18 (IANS) At least 35 Bangladeshi fishermen were arrested and their two trawlers seized by the Coast Guard after they were found in the Indian waters in the Bay of Bengal, said the police on Thursday.
Heavy seas are preventing attempts to assess the damage to a French trawler which has been driven on to rocks near Daingean Uí Chúis... The trawler is believed to have been carrying an estimated 40,000 tonnes of fuel.
Salvage operators have been unable to board the grounded trawler, the Fasnet, due to dangerous sea conditions ... Its 14 crew were airlifted from the trawler in dramatic circumstances by the Irish Coast Guard's Rescue 115.
Efforts will be made again today to board the trawler the Fastnet, which went aground at the entrance to Cuan an Daingin on Sunday ... trawler yesterday to assess the damage.
The Irish Coast Guard has successfully rescued the crew of a French fishing vessel that drifted onto the rocks near Dingle, a small port on the south ....
An operation to remove a trawler which ran aground off Cuan an Daingin in Co Kerry yesterday will continue today. The trawler ran aground on rocks near Binn Bán beach, where weather conditions were extremely poor with rough sea conditions.
Offshore windfarms are causing a huge downturn in seafood catches at one of the UK's most iconic locations for crab fishing, a local firm claims. Critics say the crisis is being repeated elsewhere ....