FV Margiris
{{short description|Fishing trawler and factory ship}}
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| {{Infobox ship begin |display title=FV Margiris}}
{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=KL 749 Margiris Klaipeda IMO 8301187.jpg }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship name=*Margiris
|Ship renamed=Margiris |Ship country=Lithuania |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Lithuania}} |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship homeport=Klaipėda |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, (Mjellem & Karlsen Verft, Bergen, Norway 1997 rebuild) |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=12 March 1985 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship identification=*{{IMO Number|8301187}}
|Ship fate= |Ship status=In service |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship class = Super Trawler | Ship tonnage = *{{GT|9,499}}
| Ship length = {{convert|136.1|m|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|18|m|abbr=on}} | Ship draught = {{convert|5.5|m|abbr=on}} | Ship decks = 32 | Ship deck clearance = | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = | Ship speed = | Ship range = | Ship capacity = | Ship crew = | Ship notes = }} |
FV Margiris is the world's second largest fishing boat. It is a {{GT|9,500}} super trawler and factory ship.{{cite web |title=Minister queries super trawler quota |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-17/minister-to-proble-super-trawler-quota/4204878 |date=2012-08-17 |work=ABC News |access-date=2012-08-29 }}
To Australia as ''Abel Tasman''
In 2012, Seafish Tasmania brought the ship (then named the Abel Tasman) to Australia.{{Citation | author1=Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National | title=Super trawler | publication-date=2012-09-05 | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/179423529 | access-date=2017-11-20 }}{{cite web |title=Stoush over super trawler port access |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-24/stoush-over-super-trawler-port-access/4220714 |date=2012-08-24 |work=ABC News |access-date=2012-08-29 }} She was originally authorized to catch a quota of 18,000 tonnes of jack mackerel and redbait along the southern shores of the country.
After protests against her use by environmental and fishing industry groups, the Australian government passed legislation prohibiting the trawler from fishing in Australian waters for two years.{{Citation | author1=Australian Broadcasting Corporation. News | title=Super-Trawler boss: protests not a concern | publication-date=2012-09-03 | publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/188221850 | access-date=2017-11-20 }}{{cite news | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-13/super-trawler-legislation-passes-house-of-reps/4260142 | title=Laws to stop super trawler pass Lower House | date=2012-09-14 | work=ABC News}} For this reason, Seafish Tasmania subsequently sold its stake in the vessel to Dutch company Parlevliet & Van der Plas. On 6 March 2013, after six months moored in Australian waters, she left Port Lincoln, having reassumed her original name of Margiris.{{cite news | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-06/super-trawler-sails-off-from-controversy/4556560 | title=Super trawler sails off from controversy | date=2013-03-06 | work=ABC News}}{{cite news | url=http://www.foodmag.com.au/news/super-trawler-sets-sail | title=Super-trawler sets sail | date=2013-03-07 | author=Andrew Duffy | publisher=Food magazine}}
After leaving Australian waters, the vessel passed through Cook Strait, New Zealand on 20 March 2013. She was now flagged to Lithuania and owned by Atlantic High Sea Fishing Company.
Subsequent issues
Margiris arrived in Port of Penco, Chile on 7 April 2013. The vessel did not berth and steamed out of the bay to fish.{{cite news | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/8477513/Super-trawler-in-Cook-Strait | title=Super trawler in Cook Strait | date=2013-03-26 | publisher=Marlborough Express | author=Michael Field}}
The Super Trawler issue was subject to a court challenge in 2014 {{Cite web|url=http://www.corrs.com.au/publications/corrs-in-brief/federal-court-upholds-ban-on-super-trawler-but-warns-of-rough-seas-ahead/|title = Insights}} and an Australian Government scientific report published in late 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/marine/publications/report-expert-panel-small-pelagic-fishery|title = Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment}} Before and after this report there was reaffirmation that super trawlers over 130 metres, like Margiris, would not be permitted under Australia's environmental protection law, yet controversy continues in Australia about factory-fishing boats.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/dec/26/supertrawler-ban-is-flawed-say-environmental-and-fishing-groups#comment-45421368|title=Supertrawler ban is flawed, say environmental and fishing groups|website=TheGuardian.com |date=26 December 2014}}
In late October 2015, the Margiris was fishing off the North west coast of Ireland. The Irish naval service fisheries inspectors refused to board her at sea, due to adverse weather condition. She had departed the waters shortly before the weather improved. In November 2016, the Margiris entered Irish water. The ship had been active for a day when it was boarded by an Irish Naval Service fisheries inspection team.{{Cite news|url=http://coastmonkey.ie/news/margiris-active-off-donegal/|title=Super Trawler Update {{!}} World's second largest vessel active off Irish coast|newspaper=Coast Monkey|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-12-01}}
In February 2022, the Margiris shed over 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off France, covering an area in excess of 3,000 sq m. A representative of the ship's owners stated that it was due to a net break but Sea Shepherd France, a marine conservation organization, said it did not believe the incident was accidental, but rather an attempt by the trawler to discharge a type of fish that it did not want to process, a practice known as discharging bycatch which is banned under EU fishing rules.{{Cite web|title=Floating carpet of dead fish found off French coast after trawler incident|url=https://whtc.com/2022/02/04/floating-carpet-of-dead-fish-found-off-french-coast-after-trawler-incident/|access-date=2022-02-04|website=1450 AM 99.7 FM WHTC {{!}} Holland|language=en}}
See also
References
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Report of the Expert Panel on a Declared Commercial Fishing Activity - Final (Small Pelagic Fishery) Declaration 2012, Expert Panel on a Declared Commercial Fishing Activity, Dec 2014, available on-line [http://www.environment.gov.au/marine/publications/report-expert-panel-small-pelagic-fishery]
External links
- [http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Margiris-8301187.html Details for the Ship Margiris (IMO Number: 8301187) with current real time position and ship photos]
- [http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2012/07/16/3546776.htm Will the super trawler Abel Tasman (Margiris) destroy our fisheries?]
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