Concentrated conservation efforts within Monsoo’s Talaysedaeng Sea has seen the presumed extinction of the invasive Southern-Fox Fish from the largest coral reef in the region, Koh Tao.

The methodology to determine that they’ve been hunted to extinction is simply that none of the hunters who go out specifically to hunt them has found any in weeks, and non-SFF species are flourishing once more. At the very least, the SFF’s numbers have been lowered to the point where they aren’t overeating the native wildlife.

The Joint Monsoorai Oceanic Administration reports that they’ll keep an eye on Koh Tao to make sure they’re well and truly dead.

But fishermen and restaurants needn’t worry that their access to such easy prey is gone (though said fishermen they would certainly understand this already), for while Koh Tao is the largest coral reef in the Talaysedaeng Sea, there are many others with low levels of infestations by the SFF. Easy hunting and yearly competitions will continue, and the JMOA expects efforts to continue for no less than another decade.

The worry within the JMOA is of jealous fishermen replicating this near ecological disaster.

In the SFF Extermination Competition earlier this year, sailors from across Monsoo, even citizens of opposing empires, arrived in the Talaysedaeng sea for a vacation of drinking and easy eating. Some sailors openly joked about taking a few Southern-Fox Fish back home and releasing them in their territorial waters, which led to a few arguments and at least one brawl by the true conservationists, who hunt because they love the sea.

The JMOA is pushing for regional governments to adopt harsher laws against oceanic vandalism, but those governments are looking at the potential benefits of hosting such widely loved hunting competitions in their seas.