USCGC Harriet Lane arrives Pearl Harbor. USCG Photo.

Reuters reports,

“Six Chinese fishing boats were found to be violating Vanuatu’s fisheries law after being inspected by local police who were on board the first U.S. Coast Guard boat to patrol the waters of the Pacific Islands nation, Vanuatu police and officials said.”

Nice to see positive results from USCGC Harriet Lane‘s first Pacific law enforcement deployment. (In just over a month, Harriet Lane will turn 40 years old.)

Notably,

“Last year, a Coast Guard vessel on patrol for illegal fishing was refused access to Vanuatu’s port.”