Many container ships and tankers now carry armed guards, leaving pirates with fewer targets to go after.
"It's hard enough to climb up the side of a ship with a Kalashnikov on your back but it's harder when you have someone shooting down at you," Kelly said, adding that pirates tend to look for softer target.
According to Ports and Ships website, it is apparently not unusual for fishermen, in an area where the uncontrolled spread of weaponry has become endemic, to carry small arms in their boats to defend themselves against both pirates and other lawless elements that are found in these seas.
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