Smooth sailing for Australia's automatic forfeiture of foreign fishing vessels

• Main Author: Gullett, Warwick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Online 2005
• Subjects: fishing; vessels; smooth; automatic; australia; foreign; forfeiture; sailing; Law; Heard; McDonald Islands; Southern Ocean; Patagonian Toothfish
• Online Access: https://ro.uow.edu.au/lawpapers/108; https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=lawpapers

The High Court of Australia has brought to a close one chapter of the various legal proceedings arising out of Australia’s arrest of the Russian fishing vessel Volga in 2002. The vessel was arrested on the high seas immediately adjacent to Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) surrounding the He...