Profile

A subsidised distant-water fleet that drags weighted gear over seamounts, turning coral gardens that predate human history into rubble in a single pass. They chase the spawning aggregations that gather on these peaks, taking the future of the stock along with the catch. Disrupt-tier: we mark and monitor the VME closures, foul trawl doors, and recover the smashed coral as evidence of the breach.

Documented Crimes

• Bottom-trawling across deep seamounts, flattening cold-water coral gardens centuries old
• Targeting aggregating spawning stocks on unmanaged high-seas peaks
• Discarding vast bycatch of non-target deep-water fish and corals
• Trawling inside a vulnerable-marine-ecosystem closure flagged by the RFMO

Linked Operations

Species at Risk

Standing Note