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Coast Guard Unveils New Small Vessel Security Strategy

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Monday, March 14th, 2011

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By Carlo Munoz The Coast Guard has unveiled a new four-pronged strategy to prevent the use of small vessels, such as yachts, speedboats or commerical fishing boats, from smuggling everything from illicit narcotics to weapons of mass destruction, service officials said last week. The plan, developed by the Coast Guard and Customs And Border Protection under the Department of Homeland Security, looks to meld advanced tracking and detection technologies with a more fluid system of shifting that information across interagency…

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