Three-week chase ends in trawler capture

Australian customs officials and armed South African police seized a Uruguayan trawler suspected of poaching endangered fish today, ending a three-week chase through icy Antarctic waters.

The trawler’s crew – including a Uruguayan government official – is accused of illegally catching Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean sea bass, a delicacy known as “white gold” because of the quality and price of its flaky flesh.