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Crews with Coast Guard Station South Padre Island had a busy Sunday as they interdicted five lanchas and seized 900 pounds of illegally caught red snapper and shark.
“Boat crews from Coast Guard Station South Padre Island and Coast Guard Cutter Edgar Culbertson, in coordination with Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi aircrews, located and stopped a total of 23 Mexican fishermen engaged in illegal fishing north of the Maritime Boundary Line,” a press release stated.
All of the men were detained and transferred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for further processing.
“Our Coast Guard crews remain committed to eliminating illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in our nation’s sovereign waters,” Lt. Shane Gunderson, commanding officer at Station South Padre Island, said in a statement. “Through highly coordinated response efforts with our federal and state partners, we will continue to combat this environmental and economic threat.”
On Sept. 24, Coast Guard crews interdicted a lancha and seized 500 pounds of illegally caught red snapper.
