Ship
Ahtiar
Ship
Ahtiar
Ахтиар (Previously named Kokand)
Ship Details
- IMO
- 8411085
- MMSI
- 273240400
- Call Sign
- UAMB
- Gear
- Fish Factory Ship
Owner, operator: Ostrovnoy Fish Processing Plant LLC
Crimes & Concerns
- Labor & Human Rights
- Fishing
- Health & Safety
The Ahtiar is directly associated with labor & human rights issues such as labor rights violations and unsanitary conditions; fishing concerns such as unreported fishing and bottom trawling; and health and safety issues such as fires & explosions.
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- Labor & Human Rights
- “I was promised a good salary and conditions on the ship, but everything turned out to be worse than it really was: the shower didn't work, the toilet didn't work, the ship was rusty,” wrote a former bosun on the ship in a February 26, 2021 review.
- Health & Safety
- On April 8, 2021, the Ahtiar caught fire while fishing in the Sea of Okhotsk, when corrugated cardboard in the hold ignited from friction. Crew members threw the burning cardboard packages overboard and a nearby rescue vessel extinguished the fire before anyone was hurt.
- Fishing
- On September 10, 2024, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court fined Ostrovnoy over one hundred five thousand dollars for catching at least three hundred tons of pollock, turning it into fishmeal on the vessel, and falsifying logbooks to indicate that they caught goby and squid instead. More than twelve tons of the fishmeal was carried to the Ostrovnoy factory on the Korona reefer. Border guards took samples of the fishmeal which revealed that it was mostly derived from pollock.
- Between 2019 and 2024, the BMRT “Ahtiar” likely bottom trawled for 3,201 hours (133 days). Bottom trawling is a fishing tactic in which a vessel tows a net, often hundreds of feet wide, along the ocean floor. Bottom trawling is a particularly destructive form of fishing because of its bluntness: anything in the net's path–including non-target species, coral reefs, and dolphins–is swept up, often fatally.
Supply Chain
Ahtiar is related to at least seven companies downstream, including four ships, one plant, and two importers.
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Importer