THE OUTLAW OCEAN -CBC- - Episode  2  The Dark Fleet  The Sea Shepherd, which is this vigilante ocean conservation organization that has a bunch of ships, was in the Southern Ocean, which is the waters right off of Antarctica on the bottom of the planet.  They were there to find and ideally capture The Thunder, which was at the time the world's most wanted illegal fishing ship.The Thunder was the top of this sort of most wanted Interpol arrest on-site list called The Purple List. This is a list that you have to work to get on and engage in well-documented crimes. Interpol estimated that The Thunder in the prior decade had sold roughly $76 million worth of largely illegally caught fish. The Thunder had been banned specifically from fishing in this remote patch of water and yet for years had been openly fishing in the waters nonetheless, largely because no one's out there to stop them. And so this was the most wanted vessel of all the illegal vessels on the planet.  It would be hard to believe if it hadn't actually happened. The longest law-enforcement chase in nautical history, spanning 110 days and 10,000 miles, featured a bunch of vigilantes pursuing Interpol's most wanted illegal fishing ship. Slaloming around icebergs in a deadly glacier field, cutting through a category 5 storm, this chase only ended when one of the ships sank. To discuss why illegal fishing is so rampant and unchecked, this episode takes us from the capture of the world's most notorious scofflaw vessel in African waters to the seas off the coast of North Korea, where we discover the planet's largest illegal fishing fleet. Guest Interview Tony Long, CEO of Global Fishing Watch To find transcriptions for episodes of The Outlaw Ocean, please click here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastplaylist/the-outlaw-ocean-episode-2-transcript-1.6727170