The Faroe Islands, midway between Britain and Iceland, got in on the act and trebled their quota to 85, 000 tonnes, pushing the total catch way above the ICES limit.
The four players in the backline must operate as a single entity, pushing up and dropping deep simultaneously to catch opponents offside and starve them of time and space.
"In the wake of the Aaron Swartz case, we really thought that Justice would kind of catch their breath and maybe understand that they had erred in pushing these cases forward in such an aggressive manner for what are essentially pranks, " Leiderman said.