January 30, 2019 — The US Coast Guard has sent a Seattle, Washington-based high-endurance cutter to the South Pacific to join in the fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.
The cutter Mellon and its crew of 150 left Seattle shortly after Christmas and stopped in Hawaii before venturing on to patrol the waters of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), the Coast Guard said in a press release.
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