American military-political focus in the arena of the Atlantic Ocean: at the moment, on Venezuela and Greenland, are drawing the international public’s full attention, among other things, due to the still unfathomable consequences of actions undertaken and possible further moves by Washington.
However, maybe some other actors too, not only Washington?
Namely, when it comes to the recent, current and future moves of others on the World Sea, more precisely on the Atlantic Ocean, one can also observe the recent military-naval activity of Great Britain in the South Atlantic region, close to the Falklands and Asuncion Islands and South Carolina, under the code name “Southern Sovereignty” (https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-stages-show-of-force-to-argentina-in-south-atlantic/).
That British military-naval action along the strategically important South Atlantic sea lanes (far from the Caribbean and Venezuela) could indicate the ever-present importance of the global naval power projections of the engaged actors. And that, from the North Sea, the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Aegean, the Red Sea… to the Indian Ocean and further to the Pacific or the Atlantic…
Some of these projections of “naval power” have rather unconventional forms, and sometimes they go unnoticed.
From such a perspective, the announced “landing” of Iranian fishermen in the territorial waters of Mauritius and Madagascar (on the photo)—on the key direction of movement of the global merchant navy in the event of a new war drama in Yemen—acts as an example of potential new advances.
Namely, as things stand now, about 168,000 fishermen are active in Iran, who board about 20,300 vessels (among which are 16,500 small boats, 3,000 traditional wooden boats (lazy), 132 fishing boats…) recently stated Ataollah Raeisi, deputy director of the Iranian Fisheries Organization. (https://irannewsdaily.com/2025/12/iranian-fishermen-to-gain-access-to-mauritius-and-madagascar-waters/).
“Our fishermen and fishing boats also act as border guards. When we say that we have 168,000 fishermen, it means that we have 168,000 unpaid border guards, who make money, create jobs and help secure the national maritime borders,” Raeisi points out.
Meanwhile, Iranian fishermen caught about 778,000 tons of fish in the 2024-25 season. year. At the same time, fishermen from the southern provinces of Sistan-Baluchestan and eastern Hormozgan, closer to the Strait of Hormuz, are increasingly heading to the Indian Ocean to the south for lucrative catches, after the unhappy experiences of Iranian fishermen in the waters of Somalia (https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/illegal-fishing-somalia-piracy-9.7018340).
Officials of the Iranian Fisheries Organization announce now “for the first time” cooperation with the official Port Louis and the official Antananarivo. “The two countries have very good fishing areas, we intend to organize Iranian fishing boats in remote waters there, as we did in Somalia, so that they can focus on industrial fishing there,” Raeisi announces.
