Security News > 2023 > May > Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away
Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day.
The equipment, which tracks a vessel's geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication system, sought to provide authorities with visibility into several hundred Chinese squid vessels that every year amass off the west coast of South America.
Instead of increasing oversight, the new Peruvian regulations appear to have driven Chinese ships away from the country's ports-and kept crews made up of impoverished Filipinos and Indonesians at sea for longer periods, exposing them to abuse, according to new research published by Peruvian fishing consultancy Artisonal.
One is that the Peruvian law was easy to hack, which China promptly did.
Of course, our current society is terrible at global solutions-to anything.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.