Greenpeace activists tried unsuccessfully to stop Margiris, a trawler owned by Dutch pelagic giant Parlevliet & Van der Plas (P&P), from docking at port Lincoln, South Australia, Thursday.
This is the latest development since Greenpeace earlier tried to stop the factory fishing trawler, the world’s second largest, from leaving Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to go and fish offshore Tasmania, Australia.
NGOs in Australia have been expressing concern about the size of the vessel, despite P&P doing a deal to fish an allocated quota of small pelagics such as jack mackerel and red bait, in cooperation with Seafish Tasmania.
Margiris can harvest 180,000 metric tons of the fish, which is only half the total allowable catch currently set for the fishery.
