I think I'm slowly convincing the State Department that there's a huge opportunity here for the United States of America because so many coastal countries are so irritated and bedeviled by pirate fishing, particularly the abuses of The Chinese fishing fleet cheats with impunity in [exclusive economic zones] and is only happy to scoop out a country's fishing stock. that their local economy depends on. So there's a whole lot going on there. And I was interested in your connection of that to the Mexican cartels. (42:04–42:17)
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