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The captain of one of the three fishing vessels detained in Romania spoke.
It happened Thursday night in international waters, sailors said.
There they hunted a certain type of shark that was allowed.
The detainees have been extensively interrogated, and a new series of interrogations is awaiting them today.
It is possible that the three captains will also be charged.
"They confiscated all our catch.
They seized everything, including appliances, but they didn't have a warrant," Captain Krasimir Petrov told NOVA.
They detained three Bulgarian ships in Romania for poaching sharks
At 9 o'clock in the evening they decided that they would interrogate us.
They kept us for questioning all night.
Until 5 o'clock in the morning.
The captains were handed some protocols from which you can't understand anything.
At the bottom it says a fine from 250 to 5,000 lei.
This is a fine for captains only.
Suddenly it turns out that the crews are witnesses, and we captains are all three defendants.
The Bulgarian state submitted a note of protest.
The minister was immediately notified, he notified the minister of foreign affairs.
After that, the consul contacted us, Petrov added.
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