Japanese boat forfeited
PA Wellingtoi Th& Jafldriesfe fishing boat Fukuwa Mani No. 1 belongs to the New. Zealand Government now that its master and a crew tnerriber have beeh convicted of. fishing withiii the 12-mile limit. The tHf&tbr of Fisheries management for the Ministry of. Agriculture and. Fisheries (Mr B. T. Cunningham)' said yesterday 1 the boat,was automatically forfeited under a clause :iri the Fisheries Act.
■ f the .Minister of Fisheries (Mr Maclntyre) will decide what happens to it. t The Fiikuwa Maru is worth dbbut $300,000, Mr t. /J. Broadmorfe, defence . cotinsel for th* Master. and . crew Member;'- told the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday. It was owned by a small Japanese company made .up of four shareholders with a bMjiitdl of $60;000. The company was independent, of larger fisheries concerns and owned orily two Boats, .the Fiikuwd Matu and a sniall tuna vessel. Both boats . were heavily mortgaged and the company incurred a loss of $12,000 last year, Mr Broadmore said.
; ,The master of the forfeited ' vessel was fitted $15,000 i.ii . the Mdgistrdte’s Court yesterdayfor fishing in New Zealand’s territoriftl waters. . . • . A crew member who was in charge of the vessel at the tithe Of the offence was fined $3500, V i . Kehichi Shimizu, aged 41, the ship’s master, had pleaded hot giiilty to .-, being tfib master Of a foreign vessel .that fished in New Zealand’s territorial waters, oh January
Mr A. B. Beatson,,S.M., also convicted Kongo Kurosawa, aged 54, on a charge that he was. a member of the crew of the fishing vessel that fished in New Zealand’s territory. Kurosawa also pleaded not guilty. Mr Beatson said Kurosawa Had been in charge of the vessel (Fukawa Maru No. 1) that night, therefore, his degree of culpability' was High. The fine would reflect this.
. The maximum fine, for ,a ship’s tnastet was SIOO,ODO and for a . chew member $5OOO, he said. He said evidence had shown the vessel was about 1.66 km within the limit. It Was not a gross Breach.
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