Operation Icefish

Two campaigns to stop the illegal poaching of vulnerable toothfish in the Antarctic

Sea Shepherd returned to the Antarctic in 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 to shut down the Bandit 6 fleet of toothfish poachers which had been operating with impunity for more than 10 years. They avoided detection and arrest by frequently changing name and registry; and by exploiting the remoteness of the Southern Ocean "shadowlands" where monitoring and surveillance are difficult.