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The coastline comprises two distinct parts of Malaysia. The Peninsular Malaysia's coastline to the west is 2,068 km (1,285 mi) and East Malaysia's coastline is 2,607 km (1,620 mi). They are separated by the South China Sea. The total land area, including inland bodies of water, of Malaysia is 330,803 km 2 (127,724 sq mi).
Global Fishing Watch enables users with Internet access to monitor fishing activity globally, and to view "individual vessel tracks, exclusive economic zones, marine protected areas, and other features." [2] It is hoped that the initiative can help to reduce "global overfishing, illegal fishing and habitat destruction." [3]
FV Thunder was an outlaw fishing vessel sunk in 2015. [1] The ship was built in 1969 in Norway and has gone by many names, including: Vesturvón, Arctic Ranger, Rubin, Typhoon I, Kuko, and Wuhan N4. [1] The Thunder was part of the "Bandit 6", a group of six fishing vessels that illegally fished for Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean.
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A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales. Modern factory ships are automated and enlarged versions of the earlier whalers , and their use for fishing has grown dramatically.
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The ship was built in Shimizu-ku Japan in 1985 for the Maruha Nichiro Corporation, and was intended for the tuna trade. The ship served with the Japanese fishing fleet before being acquired by a number of fishing concerns; her last legal owners were registered in South Korea. [2] [1] As of 2008, Andrey operated as an illegal fishing vessel.
Even today, many traditional fishing boats are still in use. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), at the end of 2004, the world fishing fleet consisted of about 4 million vessels, of which 2.7 million were undecked (open) boats. While nearly all decked vessels were mechanised, only one-third of the undecked ...