Fisheries Management: A Possible Venue for Navigating Fisheries Conflicts in the Indian Ocean

Feb 10, 2020 | Isigi Kadagi, Zachary Lien, and Cullen Hendrix
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A significant increase in fisheries-related conflicts in the Indian Ocean since 2000 is heightening regional tensions. These conflicts have ranged from purely verbal and diplomatic disputes to armed attacks on fishing vessels by coast guards and navies. These disputes are most often low-intensity, but constitute true “wild card” scenarios in which competing powers’ navies reach the brink of engagement due to the actions of third parties that they neither command nor control.