In 1992 outlaw fishing boats began illegally harvesting lobsters from the territorial waters of the country of Belukia  Soon after, the annual tonnage of lobster legally harvested in Belukian waters began declining; in 1996, despite there being no reduction in the level of legal lobster fishing activity, the local catch was 9, 000 tons below pre-1992 levels
It is ttherefore highly likely that the outlaw fishing boats harvested about 9, 000 tons of lobster illegally that year
The illegal lobster harvesting was not so extensive that the population of catchable lobsters in Belukia's territorial waters had sharply declined by 1996.