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A full ban would be much much easier to enforce. You see a fishing boat? It gets a military escort out of your national waters. You see the same boat again? It
by p1necone 4y ago
A full ban would be much much easier to enforce. You see a fishing boat? It gets a military escort out of your national waters. You see the same boat again? It gets blown up.
Compare with having to board a random sample of boats (and there'd be a lot, because a lot of them would be legitimate), check documents, check catch totals etc.
- beachy 4y agoYes, because blowing up a boat crewed by poor third world sailors trying to make some money to feed their families back home is a truly proportionate response.
- reedciccio 4y agoYou should remove the people aboard before blowing up the fishing vessel :)
- beachy 4y agoThe comment I was replying to proposed blowing up the boat as an alternative to "having to board a random sample of boats (and there'd be a lot, because a lot of them would be legitimate), check documents"
- superchroma 4y agoYes, it is. Because these people think that destroying the entire ocean is their right, and they're basically cutting throats to get ahead, and they'll never be on the hook for all the nets they cut and dump in the ocean, all the vulnerable fish they ravage and all the other damage they do.
- beachy 4y agoPerhaps a fair comment about the boats owners or the fishing company's shareholders. Not so much about the poor saps that crew it.
- philliphaydon 4y agoBit hard to escort when most illegal fishing happens in international waters.
- ArnoVW 4y agoMost fishing happens in economic Exclusion zones (200 miles out), over which states have souvereignty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone
- philliphaydon 4y agoYes but I said illegal fishing.