‘Going Dark’: The High-Tech Tricks Behind Illegal Chinese Fishing in the Pacific

‘Going Dark’: The High-Tech Tricks Behind Illegal Chinese Fishing in the Pacific

The interception of a Chinese vessel accused of illegal fishing highlights the technical lengths many use to remain undetected across millions of square kilometres of open ocean. Tuvalu Police operating on a Sea Shepard patrol boat boarded and arrested a Chinese longliner, the Lu Rong Yuan Yu 138, on July 9 for allegedly illegally operating within the small South Pacific nation’s waters. The vessel was allegedly running with its navigation light…