The Australian Border Force has confirmed it intercepted four illegal foreign fishing vessels in WA's far north on Tuesday. Pictures provided to the ABC show the wooden boats both in mangroves and at Kuri Bay, about 370 kilometres northeast of Broome.
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00:00Traditional owners say they spotted a first boat while they were working among the mangroves
00:07in that Koorie Bay area, which is about 370 kilometres north of where I am in the Kimberley.
00:12That was on Monday evening.
00:14They called Border Force officials, who they say arrived the following morning on Tuesday.
00:20When officials did arrive, the two men told the Border Force officials that they understood
00:24there were areas in the mangroves where the boats normally tuck in.
00:29So they showed the Border Force official where those areas were.
00:32But the men said it's not the first time that they have been sighting boats tucked in amongst
00:37the mangroves in that area.
00:39Here's what they told us.
00:41We're pretty elated because we've been seeing them for a while now and Border Force have
00:47come up here once or twice and have had no luck and we've been a bit frustrated because
00:52we continue to see them.
00:55We bump into them, we ring Border Force, nothing happens.
00:58The Australian Navy happened to be in the area.
01:01They responded to a call and they were, of course, without assistance.
01:09They reacted swiftly.
01:10When we went in there, we found the boat tied up right inside the middle of the mangrove
01:14system and the crew were all asleep.
01:19So we assumed they'd probably been working at night and resting during the day.
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