Volk-Arktiki

Police, Norwegian Defence and the Norwegian Coast Guard moved out to Strandvik in Fusa in the afternoon of Jan 11, 2023, to control the Russian 'Volk Arktik' that had sought shelter due to bad weather in the area As a routine the crew was checked in a collaboration between the Norwegian Armed Forces and the police. Sheltering vessels are obliged to follow Norwegian law, and to allow to be searched on request. Photo: https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/nQvQ3m/her-kontrollerer-politiet-den-russiske-fiskebaaten

Russia's Coastguard fired warning shots and seized the "Arctic Wolf" after she tried to flee on Feb 23, 2015. The 27-member crew was suspected of poaching lucrative crabs in far eastern waters and did not respond to a radio message. Instead it increased its speed when a Coastguard vessel approached it in the Sea of Okhotsk. The patrol boat fired a series of warning shots, after which the fishing vessel slowed down and allowed authorities to board. The agents found apparatus for fishing crabs and preparing them for sale, including traps, packing containers and salt. One of the crewmen was already on a federal wanted list, and, according to the captain, another crewman had gone missing three days earlier while the vessel was fishing. The ship has been taken to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky while an investigation was under way.