The Russian trawler Aleksandr Mironenko has been fishing offshore Dakhla from Dec 19th 2007 to 13 Januar, and also at least from 28 January to Feb 2nd 2008.
It is currently operating at a location 23 degrees north, 17 degrees west, which is well inside the occupied waters of Western Sahara.
This information is confirmed on the page Ocean Weather below:
The vessel has IMO number 8607177 and call sign UBAU.
The photo below shows vessel in the harbour of Las Palmas, on 28th of March 2006.
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