In the well known song "Puff the Magic Dragon", it clearly states that 'pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name'.
I suggest that maritime security officers should devote their attention to researching the official Honaleean archives in order to discover exactly what it was that Puff roared out, in order to add high powered audio playback equipment to any ship in the East African sea lanes.
The question to which we should turn our attention is whether the fiery saurian was actually named Puff, or whether this was a mere familiar name used by his child companion.
Did the dragon actually roar something on the lines of,
"I am Puffrapsychemordax the terrible, destroyer of worlds, tremble ye feeble humans!"?
It is even possible, if one were to parse the song line in that way, that it was young Master Paper's name that was used as such an effective deterrent.
In this case, much research is needed into the reasons for the apparent paper-phobia shown by buccaneers, as a whole new preventive measure against piracy is possible- we could simply wallpaper our ships.

Well- you've got to admit it makes more sense than WAV!
Cheers
Dave