A shadowy Chinese super-fishing boat that changes flags and names routinely as it illegally plunders the South Pacific is to be declared a pirate ship by a Wellington based international control agency.
Damanzaihao, flying the Peruvian flag, it is the world's largest fishing vessel at 49,367 tons but no one knows what it does in the waters between New Zealand and South America.
Wellington-based South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) wants to have the converted super tanker declared an "illegal unreported unregulated" (IUU) ship – bureaucratic speak for a pirate fishing boat.
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