It captured the imagination of the public, which followed the final days of "the ghost ship" in media reports and tracked its progress on Canadian and U.S. CoastGuard websites.
The Japan CoastGuard identified the owner of the vessel after being contacted by Canadian officials, who were provided the identification number on the hull.
The trawler's planned sinking was temporarily halted Thursday morning when the CoastGuard ship, the Anacapa, based out of Petersburg, Alaska, arrived to find a Canadian ship inspecting the trawler.