COMBINED IUU VESSEL LIST

This vessel was originally Japanese flagged and owned with the name FUKUYO MARU NO. 38. The vessel transferred ownership to Japan based company YK Motokura Shoten in April 1994 and name to RYOFUKU MARU NO. 38 in 1999. This vessel had 2 other Japanese owners between 2002 and 2013, Honzo Shoten KK followed by Yugenkaisya Honzou Syoten, before its sale to Russia based Tranzit-DV Group in November 2013. A New Zealand government surveillance aircraft photographed this vessel fishing in the SPRFMO Convention Area to the east of the New Zealand EEZ on the 21 February 2015. Correspondance between New Zealand and the SPRFMO uncovered that this vessel did not possess authorisation to fish through its flag state, Russia. This vessel was included in the SPRFMO IUU list in January 2016 for fishing in the Convention Area without authorisation. The vessel was under ownership of either Tranzit-DV Group or LLC Transit DV, named MYS MARII and held a Russia flag at the time of IUU listing. The vessel name changed to NAKHODKA in December 2018 and was removed from the SPRFMO IUU list on 14 February 2020. This vessel was detected on 17 December 2020 docked at Vladivostokskiy Morskoy Torgovyy Port, Russia.