I recently worked as drone photographer on a cruise along remote Australian coastline. One of the guest lecturers on board worked for decades with/alongside the

I recently worked as drone photographer on a cruise along remote Australian coastline. One of the guest lecturers on board worked for decades with/alongside the navy, apprehending or fending off illegal fishing boats entering protected waters on AU's NW Kimberley coast. Back in the 1700s, there were Indonesians coming down to collect sea cucumbers for the Chinese market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australi... Not sure if it's current policy, but the guest lecturer described an assessment process for boats they apprehended. A vintage all-wooden boat with no electricity/etc was allowed to continue their traditional fishing practices in the area. A modern boat with powered outboard, metal/fibreglass hull, etc was seized and destroyed. There was a third class I can't recall that was somewhere in between. I can see something like this being a way forward, where you can fish smallscale for personal use (yacht crew subsisting on whatever they can catch) or small commercial use with a certain style of boat and catching method. Any bigger operations would be restricted to specific zones, or captured and destroyed with little warning.