A man has been arrested after a ship labelled a 'monster trawler' by Greenpeace was detected by a European Union fisheries agency in Irish waters and detained in Cork for alleged fishing offences. The German-registered, m-long Helen Mary has been involved in multiple alleged fisheries breaches internationally and was detained in Tivoli dock on Monday.
The Helen Mary, which is almost m long and almost 18m wide, is registered to the port of Rostock in Germany. She is a factory trawler — a vessel which can process its catch onboard. In , the ship was detained in Scotland on suspected fishery offences. And in , Greenpeace activists boarded the supertrawler and stopped it from fishing in what they said was a protected area east of Scotland.
It was escorted to the deepwater Tivoli dock just outside Cork City, where it has been detained today. A defective pilot ladder may have been involved in the suspected infringement of maritime law, sources say. A pilot ladder is a heavy rope ladder dropped down the side of the ship to allow people — including fisheries inspectors — to board from other vessels while at sea. There are strict regulations around this specialised equipment to allow people to safely board and disembark a vessel.
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