NEW ORLEANS - Coast Guard crews from Station Grand Isle, La., were dispatched early Friday morning to intercept two fishing vessels allegedly fishing illegally within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. A country's EEZ is that nation's territorial waters.

In the U.S. this spans from the three miles off a coastal state's shore to two hundred miles offshore.

Using an intelligence report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement, crews from Coast Guard Station Grand Isle intercepted and simultaneously boarded two fishing vessels, the Sea Queen and Sea Queen III, near Cocodrie, La.

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