Depends Where You Are?

The clash between English and French scallop dredging boats in the 'English Channel' seems somewhat predictable (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/28/french-and-british-fishermen-clash-in-scallop-war-skirmish). The English are incensed because they are legally fishing (albeit in a very destructive way) as they are in an area not too close to the French coast. The French are incensed because they have been banned from taking scallops from this very same area to enable the species to recover (something that won't happen with their competitor's blitz). It is difficult enough to get fishing communities to look after the species they ultimately depend on, without engineering such a conflict of interest.