Blue and black angelfish, yellow butterflyfish and speckled puffer fish patrolled their respective patches of coral, while a moray eel glared from beneath a rock.
Your correspondent boards the flagship fishing patrol vessel, the Jean Charcot, tonight at 9.30pm in Valetta in Malta.
Over Chinese protests, Vietnam has vowed to arm its fishing-patrol vessels.Vietnam is finding support from elsewhere.
The succulent fish, marketed in the United States as Chilean sea bass, is the center of a high-seas war between poachers and fishing patrols in the remote waters between Antarctica, Australia and South Africa.
HMS Mersey is normally used to carry out fishing patrols in UK waters and the Atlantic, ensuring boats and trawlers stick to internationally-agreed quotas.
It is not surprising these days to see a set of them on a child's dresser in Manhattan, held in separate containers, in a kind of glass-bowl parody of the co-op apartment building that surrounds them, each fish furiously patrolling its cubic foot of space and waiting for the other to turn up the stereo.
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael plays out in Newhaven, a foundering fishing community patrolled by chav youths with too much time on their hands.
The authors discuss the complexities of governing the Arctic and Antarctic, addressing such issues as energy development, indigenous peoples' rights, tourism, invasive species, ship traffic, commercial fishing, military patrols, and mineral exploration.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated there are 2.5 times the capacity of fishing vessels patrolling the high seas than what the ocean's fishing populations can cope with.
IUU fishing vessels sometimes dump their fishing gear when patrol vessels are nearby or when they have been denied entry to a port.
