MURMANSK, January 21 (RAPSI) – The Russian trawler detained by Senegal remains docked in Dakar despite a verbal release agreement, the ship’s owner said Tuesday.
Yury Parshev, director of Feniks, the company that owns the Oleg Naidenov, said both sides had reached an agreement at the weekend that the ship would be released Monday. No official charges have been brought, he added.
Andrei Krainy, ex-head of Russia’s Federal Fisheries Agency, said the trawler could be released on Tuesday.
Each day that the Oleg Naidenov spends moored in the dock costs Feniks 1 million rubles ($30,000), and the total damage to the company now amounts to 19 million rubles ($565,000), said Parshev.
Feniks paid a $1 million deposit to secure the vessel’s release, a Russian state fisheries spokesman said Friday.
The trawler has been in custody in the port of Dakar since it was seized by Senegalese border guards off the coast of Guinea-Bissau on January 4 for allegedly fishing in Senegal’s exclusive zone.
The captain of the Oleg Naidenov, which was carrying 62 Russians and 23 Bissau-Guinean crew members on board, insists his vessel was fishing legally in waters belonging to Guinea-Bissau.
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