Coast Guard Stops Another Foreign Vessel Poaching Red Snapper

For the second time in less than a week, the U.S. Coast Guard reports that it stopped a foreign vessel that was illegally poaching red snapper in waters just off the South Texas coastline.

According to a USCG news release, a routine patrol last Friday afternoon by a South Padre Island stationed Coast Guard crew discovered a 20-foot Mexican fishing boat, also known as a lancha.

The Coast Guard crew, patrolling Gulf waters aboard a 33-foot law-enforcement craft, intercepted the lancha and its four-person crew some 19 miles off the Texas coast and two miles north of the U.S./Mexico maritime border.

When intercepted, the lancha was actively fishing without a legal permit...