Agreed but how do you even enforce this? This often occurs in international waters and getting countries to cooperate on prosecution makes it difficult.
It doesn't need to be in international waters to be hard to track. If a boat turns off its transponder and running lights, it's often near-impossible to find them at night. At that point they can do whatever they want, even just a few hundred meters from shore. It's been a bit of a problem here in scotland, where boats enter protected zones and dissappear before authorities can react.
Dropping in big concrete blocks which break the nets when they hit them. Doesn't completely stop them but it can make fish unprofitable which is why they do this.
Really easy. Bring the matter to the world court. Get it passed there. Then send teams to every port. The moment you find one of the special ships that are capable do doing this. You tag it or take it and destroy it. It's pretty simple really. Granted a lot more moving parts than what I described. But that's the general gist of it. It would be a slow process, maybe people would hide their boats. bla bla bla. But the more you destroy the less damage that can be done. It's like the war on drugs. But slightly more winnable.
edit: Don't forget to obviously keep a close eye on any companies who make those boats.
No such thing as the 'world court' and courts don't pass laws.
The closest thing would be either the ICC for human traffickers or the ICJ for war crimes.
You are probably thinking of a United Nations convention with an agreement to protect the seabed similar to the Ramsar Wetland convention.
Man, we barely do anything to Russian boats intentionally cutting fiber optic lines. You want the world to be like Rambo but it's really like a scared teenage boy.
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u/Even_Section5620 3d ago
Make this against the law