Special Report: Massive underfunding ‘severely constricts’ ability of Naval Service to carry out operations

Among the duties of the Naval Service is monitoring of fisheries.

The sheer scale of the task facing the Naval Service in protecting our vast maritime area of responsibility would be a daunting challenge at the best of times.

But that challenge is made all the harder by the limited resources it currently has and the projection it's likely to have four ships off operational duties by the end of the year due to the manpower crisis.