A chemical tanker captain has been given a suspended jail sentence of eight months after a 2014 collision with a fishing boat off France.
French prosecutor Nathalie Mathieu had asked for 10 months for the master of the 36,000-dwt Peterpaul (built 1998) after the incident involving the Rupella fishing vessel off Saint-Pierre-d'Oleron.
He was convicted of a breach of collision regulations.
Mathieu said the master had seen several trawlers in the area and should have been more attentive, the Sud Ouest daily said.
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