European fishing boats have been overfishing in sovereign Newfoundland waters for decades, and are responsible for the collapse of the Newfoundland fisheries. They tried to do the same in sovereign Icelandic waters, but unlike the Canadian government, the Icelandic government took steps to stop it before their fisheries collapsed. JtS says that Spain, Portugal, and Russia were the worst offenders, and Spain is still doing it. He says they use bottom trawling methods that scoop up everything there, and that they sneak inside the 200 mile boundary for the Canadian sovereign waters.
"About five years ago, Somali fishers upset over foreign overfishing stoked the piracy problem in the Horn of Africa and began to seize trawlers and their crews and hold them for ransom. Civil war and anarchy had left their dismantled government unable to protect its fisheries."
"According to 'The Crisis of Marine Plunder in Africa' , a report published in November 2007 by the Institute of Security Studies (ISS), a South Africa-based think-tank, poaching and over-fishing off southern and eastern Africa has become so extreme that permanent damage to the marine environment appears imminent.
West Africa's fish stocks were exploited by European, Russian and Asian fishing fleets in the second half of the 20th century, but in recent years the industry set its sights on the shoals in the continent's southern and eastern waters."
This is discussing Mosambique, but it shows that Western fishing boats are illegally fishing of the coast of eastern Africa...
"According to the FAO, the most recent figures show the current exploitation of demersal fish, shallow-water shrimp, line fish and deep-water lobster is extreme. A lack of marine management and an ever-increasing number of fishermen - both artisanal and commercial - is partly responsible, but experts also blame widespread illegal fishing by Western fishing fleets."
The people of Somalia were making progress in bringing order and civil infrastructure to that country in 2006, but those efforts were ended when the US sponsored the Ethiopian attack and occupation of Somalia...
"The dramatic increase in the number of pirate attacks this year is a consequence of the complete breakdown of law and order in Somalia. But for a brief respite in 2006, the country has ceased to be a functioning state since the death of President Siad Barre in 1995. For most part of 2006, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), a coalition of Islamic jurists and civil society, managed to end the strife and throw out the warlords. However, the dreams of a lasting peace were shattered when the Ethiopian army, under instructions from Washington, invaded the country and ousted the government run by the Islamic Courts. The country once again plunged into a spiral of unremitting violence."