Two Salvadoran citizens were captured in Nicaragua for allegedly carrying out illegal fishing in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, the Nicaraguan Armed Forces reported on Tuesday.
The capture occurred on Monday 2.6 nautical miles from Punta San José, in northwestern Nicaragua.
According to the Nicaraguan Army, two Salvadorans, one of them named José Santos Caballero Martínez, 33, and the other unidentified because he was a minor, “fished illegally in Nicaraguan jurisdictional waters, violating the laws established in the country”.
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According to the military report, the Pacific Naval District of the Nicaraguan Armed Forces detained the fishermen’s boat, who “were handed over to the corresponding authorities,” without specifying which ones.
The capture of Salvadoran and Honduran fishermen who work outside the law, occurs with some frequency in Nicaraguan waters of the Pacific Ocean because Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras share maritime borders, including those of the Gulf of Fonseca.
On other occasions, the Nicaraguan Army has captured drug traffickers posing as fishermen, in vessels dedicated to transporting drugs off its Pacific coast, given its geographical location on the American continent.
