That's what the shipping companies want:
The pirate-infested waters off of east Africa are huge -- more than 1.1 million square miles. So rather than trying to patrol that whole, enormous area, tanker owners' association president Peter Swift suggests "putting a blockade around Somalia and introducing the idea of intercepting vessels leaving Somalia rather than to try to protect the whole of the Gulf of Aden."
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/blockade-somalia/208187/
