Arrest, and imprisonment of any sailing crews caught engaged in the activity, or with pirated catch in their ship’s holds. Along with these measures, immediate scuttling of their vessels in question would quickly deplete the stock of boats illegitimately engaged in the type of fishing which is depleting entire wild stocks.

Nations should band together and establish realistic limits, and coordinate to enforce them rather than imposing impotent fines. Vessels registered to nations which refuse participation or decline to abide by the rules laid out should be engaged as hostile entities both in and outside of member nations naval territory. Some of the coordinated pirate fishing is roughly equivalent to strip mining, the damage may take decades to heal, if at all still possible.

As it is, the oceans are set to fill with jellyfish over the next few decades due to anticipated overall temperature increases, and lack of predation by other sea creatures. If fish stocks face this additional competition on top of the already ludicrous figures of harvest, the entire oceanic food web may face collapse.