(File photo)Fishing company Amaltal has maintained its position that a vessel found trawling in an unauthorised area was the fault of the skipper and not the company. The judge-alone trial concluded on Wednesday, following a 10-month hiatus after the prosecution presented its case, and an application for the charges against Shuttleworth to be dismissed was thrown out by Judge David Ruth in September 2020. The Amaltal Apollo left Nelson in May 2018, on a trip to fish for orange roughy and alfonsino. During the trip, there was confusion over the area the vessel was fishing in. ”What he was supposed to do was check the coordinates against the high seas permit.

Source: Stuff July 14, 2021 05:15 UTC