EU NAVFOR Have Been Busy This Weekend

It looks like the decision on the 24th of February to expand the objectives of Operation Atalanta to include control of Somali ports where pirates are based as well as going after mother ships is already paying off.

According to the EU NAVFOR website:

Over the weekend of 5 - 7 March, EU NAVFOR units have been involved in concerted operations to interdict and disrupt pirate action groups before they had the opportunity to pirate vessels in the Indian Ocean.

Six pirate action groups have been intercepted, mother ships and skiffs have been destroyed and over 40 pirates have been taken into custody.

The French captured 35 pirates and seized 4 motherships and 6 skiffs during these actions.

Now we'll have to wait and see what happens with the captured pirates.