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Articles by Michael P. Feltovic
USVs Could Deter IUU Fishing
In the opening scenes of Top Gun: Maverick, Admiral Chester Cain tells Maverick, “These planes you’ve been testing, Captain, one day, sooner than later, they won’t need pilots at all . . . the future is coming, and you’re not in it.” The Coast Guard faces a similar reckoning. Autonomous technology is an attractive solution to many maritime security challenges.
Coast Guard Migrant Interdiction Operations are in a State of Emergency
Coast Guard migrant interdiction operations have reached a breaking point across the southeastern U.S. maritime border and the Caribbean Sea. Major economic and social turmoil unfolding in Caribbean countries, particularly Haiti and Cuba, are causing maritime migration to reach increasingly high levels and are pushing the Coast Guard’s interdiction resources—and its people—far beyond sustainable or acceptable levels.
The Cod Wars and Lessons for Maritime Counterinsurgency
Can a small state successfully defend its maritime claims against a nuclear-armed opponent? Are smaller actors able to win below the threshold of high-intensity war? Or was Thucydides right in saying that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must? While pondering these questions, today’s disputes in the South China Sea or future concerns in the Arctic may come to mind.
Give Teeth to Fishery Enforcement
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a shrouded industry of poaching, smuggling, and legal gamesmanship that often abuses disadvantaged areas without effective government enforcement. As the stability of fisheries and international norms is tested, unlawful fishing will grow increasingly destructive to the security of nations and their waters. The United States and allies can—and should—do more to stop IUU fishing.
The World’s Fishermen as a Maritime Sensor Network
As a topic, illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing needs little introduction.
Counter IUU with Maritime Enforcement Groups
There is an emerging crisis in the Pacific, fueled by the war on fish. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing “erodes both regional and national security, undermines maritime rules-based order, jeopardizes food access and availability, and destroys legitimate economies.”1 The most deleterious effects are on vulnerable coastal states without sufficient resources to police their territorial waters.
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