Burgo-Tierradoran EEZ Exploitation Settlement (2003)
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The 2003 article can be about the end of hostilities and our governments coming to an agreement of me backing off and moving my distant-water fishing fleet elsewhere. Your government points out that while it's hard to prove, it's likely that my fleet was illegally fishing in your EEZ since 1996, the early 2000s is just when technology caught up and they were able to prove it. The ocean is vast so even though they had proof in 2001-02 they couldn't catch any fishermen in the act until late 2002. The initial interactions were fairly harmless with your navy/coast guard escorting my ships to the edge of the EEZ and shouting "and don't come back!" A few months of this and it's not working so the Navy escalates and starts arresting my fishermen and bringing back the boats to the impound. I pay to release the boats and the sailors are let off with a hefty fine. Still they persist so you arrest and start blowing up the boats in early 2003. Finally I come to the negotiating table and but the end of the year we come to an amicable agreement that I will fuck off and pay $200million to a financial assistance fund that supports small local fisherman during seasons where they don't catch enough fish to make ends meet.