Portuguese fishing boat detained until €150k bond paid

A Portuguese fishing boat has been detained pending the payment of a bond of more than €150,000 after it was accompanied into Castletownbere by the LE Samuel Beckett on Thursday.

The skipper of the Mestre Bobicha, Jose Ramon Perez Sampedro, appeared before a special sitting of Clonakilty District Court in on a charge of fishing with passive gear that was not correctly marked 300km off the Irish coast near Fastnet.