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Monitoring illegal fishing with OSINT tools – PID Perspectives
In 2017, Ecuadorian authorities seized a refrigerated cargo vessel in the protected waters of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). On board, they found 300 tons of sharks, most of which were protected species. Their action wasn’t just luck: the seizure was a planned operation after a through OSINT investigation that helped them discover the illegal activities of the Fu Yuan Yu 681 and its sister ships.