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I find that the verdict of the assessors was not perverse. They found that the accused as captain of the \hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 "\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 Win Feng 136\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 "\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 , a foreign fishing vessel\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 ,\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 fished within Fiji\hich\f0 \rquote \loch\f0 s exclusive economic zone, without a Fiji government license, between 2\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 nd\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 and 20\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 th\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 December 2006. \par \par \hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 3.\hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 \hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 It was open to the assessors to reach the above conclusion on the}{\f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7487611 \hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 }{ \f0\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid7487611\charrsid7487611 \hich\af0\dbch\af37\loch\f0 evidence. I accept their verdict. 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