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The crew of the Bangun Perkasa, a stateless fishing vessel suspected of illegal large-scale high-seas drift net fishing, tend their fishing nets prior to a Coast Guard law enforcement boarding conducted by the Kodiak-based Coast Guard Cutter Munro Sept. 7, 2011. The U.S. Coast Guard actively participates in the international cooperative efforts against large-scale high-seas drift net fishing as encouraged by the United Nations moratorium.

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Seized pirate fishing ship might be sold cheap

Published: January 27th, 2012 01:48 PM
Last Modified: January 27th, 2012 01:50 PM

The Bangun Perkasa, the formerly rat-infested heap of a fishing vessel seized by the U.S. Coast Guard off Japan last year and brought to Dutch Harbor, might go on sale cheap if the owners don't step forward to claim it, NOAA tells the Dutch Harbor Telegraph.

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"We have advertised for anyone with an ownership interest to claim the vessel," said Julie Speegle, NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman in Anchorage. "Our next court date is in February." The process first gives the lawful owners an opportunity to claim their vessel. "We have to allow them so much time before we can close that avenue to them."

The problem is nobody has stepped forward to claim the vessel, possibly because the owners are in fact pirates. It remains moored at Magone Marine in Dutch Harbor, the parking meter running 24/7.

The ship's Southeast Asian crew, accused of illegal driftnet fishing, was to have been deported without being charged.