Schneier on Security

So it has to be worth the risk for them or they wouldn't be there after the first one.

Isn't the South Atlantic a rather large body of water in which to be poaching? I usually stick to a mere pot of water and a couple of hen's eggs.

The problem with asian fishing ships it's actually growing. Sometimes they pretty much invade other countries' continental waters and poach anything they can, including squid :P

As for a risk for them, it just depends on the country. Argentina has a strong navy - remember their war with the UK over the Falklands - and they use it. Most other countries don't have that resource, and the poachers have a free run on resources that oficially don't belong to them.

I figure poached squid might taste yummy...

199 miles offshore, eh? Sounds to me like we might have a bit of a difference of opinion between Argentina and the Taiwanese over how far out the boundaries between national and international waters lie. Or, someone's GPS wasn't all that accurate (maybe the US Govt lowered the accuracy as part of the "war on Terror".)

~EdT.

FRoogle said: "Isn't the South Atlantic a rather large body of water in which to be poaching? "

Well I did the math: If you were to use the whole Atlantic ocean to poach (a lot of) eggs, assuming you boiled it (could also be used to boil Squid) it would require:

Number of liters of water in the Atlantic (per wikipedia) not counting attached seas: 323,600,000,000,000,000 {323,600,000 Cubic Kilometers}
Times the specific heat of Water: 4,190
Times the temperature difference between the Atlantic's approx average temp and boiling water in Celsius (100-8=92)
Equals 1.25E+23 Jules/Sec of energy necessary to bring it to a boil.

Of course then you get to add the eggs and have to deal with the complaining fisherman who were also in your pot.

Someday I'll bother calculating the number of 100Mton Atomic bombs that would take, but for now, I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader...

EdT: No error on GPS. Argentina considers 200NM or the continental shelf, whichever is greater their national waters.

The Malvinas/Falklands Is.fall inside this shelf.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2106.html

As for the Taiwanese poachers I believe they should be tried and incarcerated under local law. Let them fish in Taiwan's waters.

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