Stevie Bennett

It's amazing what you can see on patrol. Today we had a pod of about 10 Orca following us and playing alongside us for about 20 minutes.

Today we have some lovely South Atlantic weather heading in, currently all our fishing vessels are moving to take cover just north of the Islands and in to the Falkland Sound. Wind speeds so far in excess of 80 knots and the worst is still to come.

A few images from the last few days out and around the Falkland Islands on FPV Lilibet.

Something different today, Lilibet is monitoring a fishing vessel under tow as she proceeds to the safety of the Falkland Islands.

Monitoring Ship to Ship refueling is an important task for us to ensure the ongoing survival or our most precious assets, our wildlife.

Another day carrying out fisheries compliance boardings this time on some of our Trawler fleet.

As we leave for another patrol we pass the FV Argos Berbes, and the Launch Fitzroy as we pass through the Narrows. 🦑

FPV Lilibet is ready to head out for another patrol. See what this patrol brings.

Squid being frozen ready to be sent to Europe. Did you know If you eat calamari in southern Europe there is over a 50% chance it's a Falklands squid! 🦑🦑

Not so dark now with all of the Jigger fishing fleet with their lights on.

With the weather playing ball now it was straight back to fisheries compliance boardings today.

It always amazes me how dark it is out in the South Atlantic.

With the rises in fuel costs we welcome the new FPV Lilibet. 😉

An evening departure from anchor for FPV Lilibet on our next patrol of the Falklands EEZ. Currently over 135 vessels fishing in our zone, so going to be a busy time.

Another busy week for FishOps getting more inspections completed. So far a 2026 total of 135 done.

After a few really nice sunny days stuck in the office, today it's inspection time, and yes it rained, and rained. But good inspection done.

Well that's the end of the patrol now, back to the office for a while. No rest for the crew though, that's them heading back out on patrol.

A different day, a different type of vessel inspection. Today we were over 100nm south of the last few days inspecting Loligo Trawlers.

Returning to our RHIB "Alpha Whisky" after another Compliance boarding of a Jigger. Filmed by our Coxswains helmet Camera.

We spend long times in our RHIB at sea moving between vessels. It allows us to come so close to so many types of birds including Albatross. And they are so big!!