Albatrosses who catch pirates on the high seas
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In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, It perched for vespers nine; Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS.
When you're already breaking some ethics/rules, it is much easier to break one more.
The albatrosses already told us where to fly, now we need to put up some tech to catch the poachers. If they got reliably caught, fined, boats seized, few would bother.
train ML on normal fishing routes/paths to take, deviation, detects unexpected ships ooh
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Thanks for the links, will check them out
[1] https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/30-03-2016/how-chinas-illeg...
aka "Chilean sea bass" so that upper middle class westerners think it's a striper and don't bother to Google it.
Halibut, Cod, Flounder, Albacore, Smelt, Sardines, Anchovies, etc. You don't usually have trade names until you start getting into fish that weren't commonly fished for Western consumption until refrigeration plus depletion of fisheries made it possible and profitable to fish things half way around the world or fishing or fish some secondary species that was formerly considered by-catch. At least that's my observation. I've never done a comprehensive survey.
Why? This is what leads to world-policing and "white mans burden".
better would be to deport/repatriate the crew then sink the boat to make an artificial reef.
This hurts the boat owners.
though, they might then decide to take "revenge" on the crew for costing them a ship...
also, in the case the fishing is done by a nation/state, they might consider this an act of war.
so it is a tragic problem.
and just wait until deep sea mining takes off
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-f...
"The loggers took years to perfect and I can still remember the excitement of getting the first one back that had successfully detected a boat’s radar."
"Getting the first one back" makes me think that they physically had to retrieve the sensor, rather than have data transmitted.
I am aware of two kinds of trackers deployed on birds. The first can note their location via GPS at regular intervals and send that data to cell towers when in range. I've only heard about these being deployed on larger birds such as Peregrine Falcons [0] or Snowy Owls [1].
The second type uses daylight to gather location data. If you know when the sun rose and set, relative to UTC, you can pinpoint your location to within ~100 miles. Trackers using this technology can be much smaller, but the bird has to be recaptured for data to be retrieved. Trackers like this were used within the last decade to finally uncover the location where Black Swifts who breed in the United States spent their winter. These small birds flew all the way to Brazil and returned the next summer to the exact same nesting location they used in prior years. Similar trackers, which also had accelerometers, were used to prove the Common Swifts sometimes fly non-stop all winter, sleeping while they fly.
Given the text I quoted and the fact that albatrosses rarely come near any sort of radio receiver, I suspect the trackers must be retrieved from birds, likely on the breeding grounds, which would make the lag monumental. Perhaps it's possible that they're able to do some sort of satellite transmission, but that would seem very challenging indeed.
[0] https://madisonaudubon.org/fff/2016/10/25/featured-sanctuary... (The main site appears to be down) [1] https://www.projectsnowstorm.org/
Thanks for the thoughtful response
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