Mokpo Coast Guard Catches Fishing Vessel Dumping Waste Oil into the Sea

The "Yunhwalyu Real-Name Sticker" Effect is Significant... Contributing to Marine Pollution Tracking and Detection

Mokpo Maritime Police Station (Chief Kim Hae-cheol) announced on the 25th that it had caught a vessel dumping waste oil barrels into the sea on the 24th.

On the 14th at 11:36 a.m., the maritime police received a report that waste oil barrels filled with waste oil were floating near Odo Pier in Amtae-myeon, Sinan-gun, and black waste oil was leaking from them.

Mokpo Coast Guard is collecting waste oil containers.
[Photo by Mokpo Maritime Police Station]

The Mokpo Maritime Police immediately dispatched to the reported site, took emergency containment measures using oil absorbents, collected the waste oil barrels floating in the sea, and investigated the vessel involved through the "Lubricant Real-Name System."

The "Lubricant Real-Name System" is a system introduced by the Mokpo Maritime Police since 2017 to address the issues of illegal dumping of vessel waste oil barrels at sea and abandonment on land by attaching stickers with QR codes and unique numbers to lubricant storage containers to identify purchasers.

According to the investigation by Mokpo Maritime Police, fishing vessel A (9.77 tons, registered in Mokpo, coastal gill net) is suspected of dumping waste oil barrels into the sea at the reported location after replacing the engine oil in the engine room on the afternoon of the 12th and departing from Mokpo North Port for fishing on the 13th.

A Mokpo Maritime Police official said, "Thanks to the Lubricant Real-Name System, we caught the vessel involved," and urged, "Dumping waste oil into the sea can cause enormous damage to the marine environment and surrounding aquaculture farms, so maritime workers must properly dispose of waste oil."

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