THE captain of a Russian boat which allegedly poached Patagonian toothfish from Australian waters has died in hospital after drinking cleaning fluid mixed with orange juice. The man not named by authorities had been critically ill and in a coma since drinking the lethal cocktail three weeks ago during a binge with two other Russians aboard their vessel, the Volga, detained in the Western Australian port of Fremantle. It was believed the trio had mistaken an Indonesian-labelled bottle of cleaning fluid for alcohol. Six Spanish nationals aboard the Volga and another Russian fishing ship, the Lena, have been charged with poaching Patagonian toothfish worth AU$2,5-million ($1,3-million) after being captured last month by the Australian Navy. – AFP