# East African fish stocks are rebounding...

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**Created:** [January 16, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/east-african-fish-stocks-are-rebounding/525224 "2010-01-16T19:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/east-african-fish-stocks-are-rebounding/525224/1 "2010-01-16T19:48:52Z")

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…and [people are](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/10/international/i093021S43.DTL&tsp=1)crediting this [to the Somali pirates](http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/the+aposbenefitapos+of+somaliaaposs+pirates/3399027) who’ve scared away [all the illegal fishing](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7845173.stm) trawlers.

\<tongueincheek\>Perhaps the pirates could [expand into](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7900431.stm) Africa’s [west coast](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7470934.stm) and kill the illegal fishing industry there too.\</tongueincheek\>

Is this a good thing? Will it last? Where did the trawlers go? For myself, of all the badness that comes with pirates (or “Ocean hijackers” as I like to call them); this is one result that I can smile at.