THE RUSSIAN TRAWLER IN INFRINGEMENT STILL DOES NOT HAVE ETE
FINDS








VLADIVOSTOK, March 7.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Larissa Beloivan,
Anatoli Ilioukhov).  The intense search undertaken since quarante-huit
hours by ships and planes of the Russian guard-dimension in order to
find Russian trawler " STM-17 " in infringement and registration
number in the territory of Primorie (the Russian extreme-East) always
does not have anything gives.  It is what has advertisement general
Pavel Tarassenko, head of the Department of the Pacific of the federal
Service of borders (FPS) of Russia.

It has critical the behavior of the Japanese autorites.  According to
its remarks, it is with delay which they have advertisement has the
Russian guard-dimension that trawler " STM-17 ", pertaining A the
company " Klemena ", had leaves the Nipponese port of Wakkanai
(septentrional island of Kokkaido) in the evening of March 4.

According to the head of the Department of the Pacific of the FPS, the
fast trawler, left in the night, had an advance of at least ten hours
and once on the open sea it could have changed course.  " According to
all probabilite, the captain of the ship in infringement put the
course on an Asian country close to Japan.  The trawler will be there
repaints and sold has foreigners to avoid being confiscates by the
Russian autorites ", estimates the general one.

Pavel Tarassenko A declares that the Russian guard-dimension had car a
lesson of this history and that " from now on it will act in an
adequate way has the regard of the poachers, but always by strictly
respecting the Law on the protection of the border of State of the
Federation of Russia ".

As announces previously, the trawler, depourvu of identification
marks, had ete repere by the Russian guard-dimension on February 20 in
water of the septentrional littoral of the territory of Primorie.
Being unaware of the summations of the guard-dimensions, the captain
of the fishing vessel had lance his boat towards international water
by pushing the machines to the maximum.  The continuation had lasts
more than twenty-four hours.  The guard-dimensions had has several
recoveries draws from the public warnings.  Once in international
water, the trawler had raises a Japanese flag, which had induced the
guard-dimensions in error.  Japanese part A refuses to expel the
trawler of the port of Wakkanai, declarant that the visas and the
documents of the ship and the Russian pecheurs were in regle.  They is
only eleven days after a request appropriee of the Russian autorites
which the trawler accompanies by two boats of the Nipponese Department
of security at sea has leaves the island of Kokkaido.