Yes, because blowing up a boat crewed by poor third world sailors trying to make some money to feed their families back home is a truly proportionate response.

Yes, it is. Because these people think that destroying the entire ocean is their right, and they're basically cutting throats to get ahead, and they'll never be on the hook for all the nets they cut and dump in the ocean, all the vulnerable fish they ravage and all the other damage they do.

Perhaps a fair comment about the boats owners or the fishing company's shareholders.

Not so much about the poor saps that crew it.

You should remove the people aboard before blowing up the fishing vessel :)

The comment I was replying to proposed blowing up the boat as an alternative to "having to board a random sample of boats (and there'd be a lot, because a lot of them would be legitimate), check documents"

Bit hard to escort when most illegal fishing happens in international waters.

Most fishing happens in economic Exclusion zones (200 miles out), over which states have souvereignty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone

Yes but I said illegal fishing.