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>All data was shared via excel spreadsheets, no real systems to work on, lots of paper forms

This can be very efficient if you spot check people from time to time, and simply cut the hands off of anyone found to be violating the law.

Tell people to calculate and pay their own taxes too, with the same punishment if they falsify stuff.

That's how Afghanistan dealt with opium farmers before 2001, and it was amazingly effective.



certainly there is a place for medieval law enforcement in this day and age

however, one (of many) problems is that the poachers make more money than the employed bureaucrats .. step 2 - follow the money


Then it seems to be a political/societal issue not unique to fisheries?




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