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At least "exclusive economic zones" around islands are mostly respected

• IshKebab 9y ago
  Or they turn off their transponders or whatever.
  • contingencies 9y ago
    Yes. Or don't have them. If you believe this map nobody fishes on either coast of Thailand or Peninsular Malaysia at all. Not true! Probably the map heavily skews to showing only points from large vessels in international waters and most vessels in well regulated / developed countries' waters.
    • jabl 9y ago
      The map is mostly based on AIS data; AIS transponders are only required on vessels larger than 100 tons, thus excluding smaller coastal fishing vessels. EDIT According to wikipedia, I'm wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_identification_syste... ). The international limit (IMO SOLAS) is apparently 300 gross tons, though local jurisdictions can have stricter requirements, e.g. it mentions that the EU requires all fishing vessels longer than 16m to be equipped. EDIT2 wikipedia is wrong, the EU limit for fishing vessels is 15m as of 2014-05-31 (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009R1224&from=EN http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELE...).
      • glup 9y ago
        I was just going to look for this information, thanks!
• losteric 9y ago
  I highly doubt islands are respected considering Chinese trawlers are found invading territory as far as Argentina