date:Jul 28, 2012
scovered a connection to the UK-registered vessel OGenita, owned by subsidiary company Sealskill Ltd, of Fleetwood, Lancashire.
In August 2010, MMO officers searched the OGenita while in port in Lochinver, Scotland, with investigations revealing extensive illegal boat-to-boat transfers (trans-shipment) of fish caught in Scottish and Irish waters then landed into Spain and the UK.
Charges brought by the MMO included providing false entries in logbooks and failing to record trans-shipments. The