The Atlantic Jane fishing vessel is a deep-sea fishing freezer vessel, with a hold capacity of 190 tons, which had set sail from Montevideo with 22 crew members on October 15 and had carried out a four-member crew changeover in Punta del Este last Thursday. .
As reported by the Chamber of Fishing Shipowners of Uruguay (CAPU) and the Chamber of Fishing Industries of Uruguay (CIPU), everything happened because the crew did not have the deposits for the advance payment that is usually made to the crew members registered in their bank accounts. . The shipowner company gave them the receipts of the deposits. The current collective agreement establishes that the payments must be deposited in the corresponding bank accounts “regardless of the days that the financial institutions require so that the transfers are accredited in the accounts of each worker.”
But the sailors dissatisfied with the bank delay in crediting the payment in the accounts of some, and with clear differences between them, abandoned their tasks and demanded to return to port.
Not complying with the assigned tasks configures an insubordination to the authority, which is the captain, or “Fishing Master” of the vessel.
In this way, a mutiny was constituted on board, which was registered in the Navigation Book and denounced before the National Naval Prefecture and DINARA. Before both institutions it was also denounced that the abandonment of the tasks left 10 tons of unprocessed fish that rotted as a result of the riot. The destination of this catch was export to West African countries and Palestine.
“The registered situation determines a behavior of insubordination that, according to the Code of Commerce and international legislation, constitutes a very serious fault, configuring a notorious misconduct at the labor level” is indicated in the statement of the business chambers. The sailors involved in the reported events were dismissed from the company.
