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Article: WA: Fed govt should give Viarsa back, says lawyer for captain
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- November 6, 2005
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AAP General News (Australia)
11-06-2005
WA: Fed govt should give Viarsa back, says lawyer for captain
PERTH, Nov 6 AAP - The federal government should hand back the impounded Uruguayan
vessel Viarsa 1 after its captain and crew were found not guilty of illegal fishing, the
captain's lawyer says.
A District Court jury in Perth has acquitted the five men - from Uruguay, Spain and
Chile - of illegal fishing charges brought against them more than two years ago.
The men were arrested after a three-week, 7,000km chase across the treacherous Southern
Ocean in August 2003 that only concluded when armed South African Fisheries officers and
security guards boarded the Viarsa.
The jury at the ...