YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. Dec 10 (Interfax) - Sakhalin border guards have detained two vessels flying the flag of Taiwan poaching in Russia's economic zone off the shoreline of the Kuril islands, first deputy chief of the Russian Federal Security Service's Sakhalin border department Vladimir Shcherbakov told Interfax.
The vessels illegally harvested over 1,000 tonnes of Pacific saury and cuttlefish, Shcherbakov said.
Active actions of border guards during the Pacific saury season allowed them to oust a large number Taiwanese vessels poaching in Russia's exclusive economic zone, he added.