There has been a dip in piracy activity: Vice-Admiral
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Vice-Admiral K.N. Sushil, flag officer commanding-in-chief, Southern Naval command, on Wednesday said there has been a dip in the piracy activity.
“Currently there has been a dip. After the last incident we have not come across any and it is expected that during the next three months there is hardly going to be any issues in this area,” the Vice-Admiral said during an interaction with media persons on the sidelines of a function here.
“We find that most of it (piracy) has now shifted into the Red Sea,” he said, adding the two attacks that were reported recently took place at the Red Sea.
“We have reports that one merchant ship has been hijacked and they are using it as the Mother ship. We hope in the next three months there will be some peace,” he said.
To a query on poaching activity around Lakshadweep island, he said he had not come across much poaching activity there. “But I am told that the Pacific tuna and Somalian tuna are excellent quality fish. So there may be some,” he said.
Sushil said a “lot of poaching” had been reported from the Andamans and there was now “an institutional measure by which we are tackling the problem.” Navy has already started setting up a full-fledged station at Lakshadweep island, he said, adding sanction for the work had already been given.
“The problem we are facing is in transporting the materials across and we are working with the island administration to see that it is done. Hopefully, we expect to finish setting up of the station by early in 2012,” he said.
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