VLADIVOSTOK, June 27 (RIA Novosti, Anatoly Ilyukhov) - Russian border guards have detained a vessel suspected of poaching in the Sea of Okhotsk, the press service of the local border guard department said.
The crew of the Leon trawler, flying the Panamanian flag, failed to stop on the border guards' command.
After their warning was ignored, the guards opened fire on the suspects.
The vessel was carrying about 80 tons of fresh-frozen crab extremities. According to the ship's captain, the crew had taken the cargo at open sea from another vessel, the Krasin, also under Panama's flag.
The guards escorted the Leon to the Sakhalin port of Korsakov for investigation.
