Operation Apex Harmony -Timor Leste

Working with local authorities to stop the illegal slaughter of sharks in Southeast Asia

In the fall of 2017, crew on the new M/V Ocean Warrior patrol vessel (awarded to Sea Shepherd by the Dutch Postcode Lottery) began working in partnership with the East Timor National Police (PNTL - Policia Nacionale Timor-Leste) to stop a fleet of 15 industrial fishing ships suspected of targeting sharks in East Timor and possibly the neighboring waters of Indonesia and Australia. Operation Apex Harmony - Timor Leste is one of Sea Shepherd's many campaigns to put an end to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.