The French navy, for example, has been sending sailors to protect the country's tuna-fishing ships in waters around the Seychelles.
Rusting hulks of the old fishing ships lie wrecked on what was once the seabed, kilometers from where the sea is now.
Now, the whales migrate through a channel of ocean that's heavily trafficked by cargo and fishing ships, earning the species a new nickname: the urban whale.
Middleton's report also notes that Somalia's fishing industry has collapsed in the past 15 years, particularly as European, Asian and African ships increase their fishing in the area.
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He added that fishing and the anchoring of ships, including commercial vessels heading for Southampton Port, were exacerbating the problem.
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Thousands of fins were thrown from one of the ships that had spent months fishing the international waters of the Pacific.
Ferries, fishing boats, private launches and container ships jostle for space in these crowded waterways, presided over by flocks of screeching seagulls that supply another of the city's signature sounds.
Down at the dockside (where fast catamarans will take you 16km upriver to MONA), it is all waterside dining with views over the working fishing port, Antarctic icebreakers and tall ships.
The queston of how the ships get out to the remote fishing grounds, how they refrigerate the fish, and how much CO-2 that all creates, is left unanswered.
"Collisions with ships are the number one cause of mortality, and entanglement in fishing gear is the number two cause, " Lecky said.
The center must dispatch ships to service the buoys, whose mooring lines often get tangled in fishing lines or are severed by collisions with boats.
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