Pirates protect fish accidentally?

Piracy is bad. Even if it accidentally allows fish to recover. Conservation advocates should not say anything positive about pirates. But it seems like someone did.

According to the VOANews.com:

A U.S.-based marine conservationist, Joni Lawrence, says by denying fishing vessels access to rich hunting grounds in the Indian Ocean, the pirates could be doing the world a favor.

Yeah, and World War II helped fish stocks recover too.

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Somali pirates say overfishing drove them to crime

It's not his fault (right). Overfishing made him do it.

Reports say that the Somali pirates in the news blame overfishing for destroying their livelihood and driving them to crime.

Maybe that, and the lack of a government, and the $20 million in ransom money, and the dashing image (left).

This has to be the strangest link to overfishing that I've ever seen. Well, maybe the recent extreme piercing to protest shark overfishing is the strangest.

It seems that things get weird when there's overfishing somewhere in the world. So if you like normalcy, let's work together to end overfishing.

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