Fv-Andre-Leduc

Faroese authorities boarded four French trawlers, the "Haltenbank Pairtrawl", the "Cap Saint Georges", the "Andre Leduc", 249 gt (IMO: 9294915), and the "Bressay-Bank Pair Tr" in a closed area east of the island of Fugløy. Both of the two pair teams have been escorted to Kollafjørður. The Coastguard vessel "Tjaldrið" encountered the two pair teams fishing east of the Faroe Islands on June 19, 2016, and informed the police that the four trawlers were being escorted in having been apprehended in an area that had been closed to fishing a few days earlier due to the volumes of small fish in the region. The four trawlers docked in Kollafjørður in the night. The skippers of two of the French trawlers, owned by the Boulogne company Euronor, claim that they had not been informed of the closure and have declined to accept set penalties, so the case will go to court. The company’s legal representatives in the Faroes have already secured the necessary bond. The Faroese authorities had informed their French counterparts of the area closure, but the information did not reach the four trawlers until they had already been boarded. The two pair teams had only just begun fishing and have only a small amount of fish on board. Icelandic report with photos: http://www.jn.fo/fronsku+trolararnir+eru+komnir+a+kollafjord+myndir.html

The "Andre Leduc" became disabled just prior before entering Peterhead Harbour on Nov 22, 2011. The vessel had lost power after an engine failure. The RNLI lifeboat "Misses Robertson of Kintail" from Peterhead Tamar responded to the scene and was launched at 7.52 p.m. while the "Leduc"’s crew restarted the engine. The lifeboat escorted the fishing vessel into the harbour. The wind was force 4 and the sea was 1.5M swell. The Peterhead lifeboat arrived back to its berth in Peterhead at 9.30 p.m.