COMBINED IUU VESSEL LIST

Listed as RAY by SEAFO. The official number of the ship was updated in IHSF May 2011 to EG-968999, indicating the ship was still in the Equatorial Guinea register. Identified in Luanda May and June 2012. Left Luanda 8 June 2012. Fished in International waters June 2012 under official number, Belize: 011221810 120301: Vessel AIS saying VESSEL NAME RAY and FLAG BELIZE 120309: GT change from 494 to 866. Subsequently deregistered by Belize. Unconfirmed information indicates the vessel called into Conakry, Guinea in November 2015, and then departed heading south. An AIS signal indicated that the vessel entered Freetown, Sierra Leone 24 March 2016 however a patrol by the local authority could not identify a fishing vessel in the location of the AIS signal. There is a possibility that the AIS transponder from RAY has now been passed on to another vessel but the information has not been updated. Two vessels are now broadcasting on AIS with the same MMSI 312451000 – RAY (or another vessel carrying RAY’s transponder) and the cargo vessel LISA, IMO 9128013, operating in the Black Sea. Identified anchored off Lome, Togo on 31 July 2016. Documents submitted to Togolese authorities showed that the name is YELE, flagged to Sierra Leone. Inspection was carried out by Togo on 3 August 2016, following which the vessel was denied further port access and requested to leave Togolese waters. Possible presence in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire in October 2016. Vessel called in to Port Harcourt in Nigeria, using the name HAI LUNG, and subsequently Lagos, where it was apprehended in September 2017. It was reported by vessel representatives that it was underway to India for scrapping and was calling in to Nigeria for bunkers and spare parts. In contradiction with the latter, the vessel sailed to Liberia in March 2018, where it was subsequently apprehended. The vessel departed Liberia in May 2018 with destination Freetown, Sierra Leone. In June 2018, the vessel departed Freetown, and later in July called Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Upon departure from Abidjan in October 2018, AIS indicates that the vessel is now named JINZHANG also reporting Equatorial Guinea flag. Confirmed at anchor in Freetown September 2019. Vessel reported still in Freetown March 2020.