What is a good way to prevent overfishing that won%26#039;t hurt fishermen? I need to come up with a solution to include in my paper but I%26#039;m drawing a blank. Please help.

With about 75% of the world%26#039;s fishing stocks on the brink of decimation, I honestly don%26#039;t think there is a solution that doesn%26#039;t involve some form of sweeping fishing ban that won%26#039;t impact fisherman in a harmful manner.

The one thing that I keep coming back to is that (this would have to be funded at a governmental level) these global fishing communities could refocus their labor on restoring marine ecosystems such as reefs, inlets and banks while the fishing moratorium was in place. Thus during the time span fishing was halted, you reap two simultaneous benefits -- allowing stocks to have some breathing room to get back to reasonable population levels, while restoring much needed habitat for them.

Currently oceans suffer fro %26quot;The Law of the Common%26quot; where the ocean is no ones property, the fish are taken at the numbers needed to make a profit.

If fishing rights were set up to give ownership of theses rights to individuals, then the individual would fish to insure that the stock was always well maintained, and that profits could be sustained over long periods of time.