Fishery Protection
When Norway introduced regulated protection of the fisheries within her economic zone Heimdal carried out the first ever sortie of a Norwegian fishery protection vessel on 12 March 1908. She also became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for illegal fishing when, on 11 March 1911, she stopped and took under arrest the 293 ton British fishing trawler Lord Roberts off the coast of Finnmark. Lord Roberts would go on to serve as naval trawler in the Royal Navy during the First World War. HMT Lord Roberts was mined and sunk off Shipwash, Harwich on 26 October 1916.
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Famous quotes containing the word protection:
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)