The following is a small snipit of an article released recently about a trawler owned by the same company of which the one entering our waters will be. See below on why YOU should help. - - "The skipper of the world’s largest trawler has been convicted of breaching EU fishing regulations on board a vessel that’s half a metre longer than the Croke Park pitch. Two of the five charges against Gerrit Plug, skipper of the 144.6-metre Annelies Ilena, were rejected on legal grounds by Judge John O’Hagan at the end of the prosecution case at Donegal Circuit Court. However, the jury found Plug guilty, by 11-1 majority verdicts, of failing to record discarded fish and discarding species of fish subject to quota. Dutch Supertrawler ‘Annelies Ilena’. It was among a fleet of Dutch vessels working some 100 nautical miles northwest of Tory Island when approached by a joint Naval Service/Sea Fisheries Protection Agency patrol on November 22nd, 2013.Dutch supertrawler largest vessel arrested by Naval Service The Dutch super-trawler “Annelies Ilena”, tied up in Killybegs after it was detained by the Irish Naval Service. Photograph: Niall DuffySuper-trawler skipper pleads not guilty to fishing offences The jury returned a unanimous verdict that the vessel exceeded the maximum space between bars on a device which filters unwanted from wanted fish. Plug, who the court heard had been at sea for 39-years without conviction in any country, was fined a total of €105,000. The judge, who did not order forfeiture of the vessel’s fishing gear, said: “This is a very large trawler. As a result of being king of the seas, there is a specific obligation to ensure that all the gear is correct as an example to other trawlers. It has been found wanting.” In a three-day trial, the prosecution claimed that the Annelies Ilena, in an “ongoing, systematic practice”, was in breach of EU regulations off Tory Island, and had illegal equipment which was grading the fish to increase the value of the catch, and discarding fish which should have been kept back into the sea." - - Say no to the super trawler in order to secure a future for our children! - - http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2015/s4184830.htm