Have the 'Bandit 6' poached their last toothfish in the Southern Ocean?

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By Rebecca KesslerJun 1, 2015, 5:15 pm92 pts
Last month the Songhua and the Yongding were boarded by authorities in Cape Verde. They were the last of six vessels notorious for poaching toothfish in the waters around Antarctica to be put out of commission in recent months, in large part due to a confrontational campaign by the ocean conservation group Sea…

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