Coast Guard: Illegal Fishing Has Surpassed Piracy as a Global Threat

Japanese fishing enforcement interdicts an illegal Chinese fishing boat in 2013.

Illegal fishing has surpassed piracy as a Coast Guard global concern in the maritime domain, the service’s top officer overseeing response policy said Wednesday.

“The Coast Guard has been in the [fishing] enforcement game for a long time,” said Rear Adm. Jo-Ann Burdian. Most recently it started with enforcing the ban on using high seas drift nets, roughly the size of a football field, that were rapidly depleting...

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/19/coast-guard-illegal-fishing-has-surpassed-piracy-as-a-global-threat

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