[Nick_GW]

The cheapest and simplest solutions to piracy are avoidance and armed security. Many non-lethal methods have been trialled over the years but nothing seems to be as cheap and effective as a human with a weapon. The link between unlicensed fishing and piracy is clear. If you take away a persons livelihood they are going to look for alternatives. It would be interesting to look at how organisations like Sea Shepherd could use technology to augment illegal fishing detection and disruption. Right now they sometimes augment local government forces to give them an interdiction capability but it may be in future they provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance using tech and leave host nation forces to interdict illegal operators.

[atlasunshrugged]

Got it, that makes sense. If you're able to hire private security from developing nations that still have good military programs (e.g. S. Africa, Philippines, Russia) then it's probably not all that expensive (if you can get them). Hmm, when I was thinking about unlicensed fishing I was more thinking about foreign nations taking advantage of poorer ones that can't control their maritime zones but the causal chain of what you described is quite clear.

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