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Montevideo, December 26th 2024 - 00:39 UTC

Tag: Capricorn

  • Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

    Jigger and trawler collide in Argentina's mile 201; crew rescued and heading for Montevideo

    This time of the year is squid season in the South Atlantic and the area experiences and intense traffic of licensed and non licenses jiggers

    A Chinese flagged jigger sank after colliding with a Spanish flagged trawler on Friday morning to the northwest of the Falkland Islands. All thirty crew members have been rescued by other fishing vessels, and are heading for Montevideo, according to the latest reports from the Argentine Coast Guard. The collision involved the jigger V Zhong Yuan Yu 11 and the trawler Pesca Vaqueiro, which went undamaged.