Military and police board last two toothfish poaching vessels in Cabo Verde

Military and police have boarded the last two Interpol-wanted toothfish poaching vessels, Songhua and Yongding, in Cabo Verde, an archipelago state off the northwest coast of Africa.
The action took place thanks to intelligence provided to international law enforcement by Sea Shepherd, which had been gathered two days prior in a remarkable set of chance circumstances.
On Wednesday May 20 at approximately 1500 local time, while in Cabo Verde on unrelated business, Captain Peter Hammarstedt of Sea Shepherd happened upon a vessel that was at anchorage at Mindelo, São Vicente that appeared to him to be remarkably like the wanted poaching vessel, Songhua.