Photo: The John B a fishing trawler with drum winches at Howth, Dublin, by William Murphy
Bryant’s Maritime Consulting points us to an announcement.
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This raises a number of questions. Who establishes the rules? Who is going to enforce this? How will the enforcer (whoever it may be) deal with uncooperative flag states? If a perpetrator is caught, where will they be jailed? Who will try the crewmembers? The owners? Where wil they serve their sentence?
Considering the lack of success with enforcement of the ban on drift nets and China’s refusal to follow the decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s decision regarding the South China Sea, is this just political theater? Or will someone step up and give, what I presume will be an agreement, some teeth?
UN mandates have authorized the use of force in the past. Could maritime law enforcement wear a blue beret?
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
It is difficult to police what we have how could we, the West, cope with more?
The other thing to consider “international law” isn’t the same as the law within a sovereign state. Within the state, well a Western one, the people police themselves and the government with guns to back them up look after the minority who commit crime. The only state capable of acting like a policeman is the US and up to some point they manage that because the rest of the world doesn’t spend on their military. Look at UN military ventures and how they depend on a handful of nations to do the real work.
The UN with each passing year becomes a joke organisation. The US could do us all a favour and pull their funding.