0"There is no official information about it yet. Local authorities didn't contact us and requested nothing," an embassy spokesperson said.

0Up to 80 crew members may be on board the ship, a Russian Federal Agency for Fishery representative stated.

0According to him, the vessel belongs to a company registered in Murmansk.

0Earlier today, Alexander Savelyev, a Russian Federal Agency for Fishery official, informed that the incident had occurred 46 miles off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. Four servicemen from a Senegalese warship, Ferlo, embarked at the trawler.

0The trawler's captain was suggested getting on board the warship but he refused to do so.

0According to Savelyev, after that "an attempt to forcibly get the captain on the Senegalese ship was made".

0"The captain's senior mate, acting on the captain's orders, raised general alarm. The captain was dismissed from his duties by Senegalese servicemen. At the moment, he is in the radio room in handcuffs. The trawler is drifting south at a speed of 0.6 knot," Savelyev continued.

0The trawler's owner, the Federal Agency for Fishery leadership, the Russian Foreign Ministry, Defense Ministry, Emergency Situations Ministry and other agencies, related to the incident, have been informed.

0The Oleg Naydenov trawler is 120-metre-long and considered to be a large fishing vessel.

0Voice of Russia, TASS