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Article: Fishy task for a navy crew.
- Article from:
- The News (Portsmouth, England)
- Article date:
- April 27, 2006
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Sifting through tonnes of smelly fish probably isn't the most popular job for sailors with sensitive noses.
But the crew of HMS Mersey had to spend two days sorting crates of cod after catching a dodgy French trawler in the English Channel.
A boarding party from the Portsmouth-based fisheries protection ship hailed the Cap 2000 for a routine inspection 50 miles off Selsey.
It soon became clear that the skipper had flouted European Union rules by failing to stow the cod separately and under-recording his catch.
Lieutenant Commander Ian Lynn, Mersey's commanding officer, said: 'The Marine Fisheries Agency ordered us to take her into ...