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Are rising pirate attacks due to Warming seas & falling  fish stocks?

This phenomenon created a “rare natural experiment” in which to test the links between climate breakdown and piracy risk, according to Gary LaFree, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Marylan

“We did a multi-varied analysis to see whether the underlying theory was statistically significant and it is.”

The study looked at more than 2,000 attacks round the Horn of Africa and found fish populations have risen and piracy rates fallen in the South China Sea, and vice-versa.

“In a timeline of roughly 20 years, we’re picking up statistically significant, measurable differences,” LaFree said. 

“I was surprised by how rapidly those changes are occurring, especially when you think of climate change most likely accelerating in the future.”

Previous studies quoted in the paper show that fishers, who already have seafaring skills and are some of the poorest communities in the world, are targeted by criminal syndicates engaged in piracy.

“You tend to think either you are a criminal or a non-criminal,” said LaFree. “But there is evidence from other researchers that some fishermen drift into it, depending on how fishing is going.”

 

There be some other questions.

How can the Brethren of the Somali Coast survive keelhauling  if yer surface temperature  off Hormuz  rise five degrees  past blood heat and  the  Red Sea begins scalding lascars in Arabia Infelix?

By the Black Spot, says Hussein Ibish 0' The Guardian , the lubberly Australians deserve a taste o'Davey Jones Camel of Ninetails ,for shipping of so much poxy Tasman sea coal through Suez!

Climate Piracy has long been treated in law as a useful precedent for terrorism. 

Due process is paramount, so lay aft to see what befalls Australian coal apologists what dares take off their dinner jackets at the Capn's table: 

Them what wears the Red Sea rig, let them dance the hempen jig!

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God looks after drunken bilge rats, children, and Old Ironsides, but on what strange tide did He condemn Palm Beach town to be invaded by Jamaica Plain bilge rats like  Captain Trump , what contends  sea level at  Mar A Lago still be on an even keel ?

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