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No, this is incorrect. They already do regulate it. It is already illegal. The problem is the regulations and penalties are pretty hard to enforce when any ship
by rthomas6 4y ago
No, this is incorrect. They already do regulate it. It is already illegal. The problem is the regulations and penalties are pretty hard to enforce when any ship in the world can go anywhere else. Italy can pass all the regulations it likes, and a Chinese ship full of somewhat desperate people can illegally fish there anyway with whatever equipment they brought with them, until the ship gets individually caught. And please note: Italy's coastline is ... Big. Really big.
- olivermarks 4y ago->No, this is incorrect. They already do regulate it. It is already illegal/ Who regulates 'it'? My point was that ships can fish anywhere but if all nation states enforced tight laws about nets the economic penalties would greatly lessen the practice.
- rthomas6 4y agoThis is a tragedy of the commons situation. The illegal fishermen are coming mostly from poor places that don't have the resources or the political will to enforce the rules. They then go fish in places that don't have the resources to enforce their laws.