The control of fisheries through marine spatial planning?

摘要

Will marine spatial planning and the increasing use of the sea for renewable energy do more for the conservation of fish stocks in than Common Fisheries Policy ever has? The time was that fishermen had unrestricted access to the sea and the resourcescontained within it. The only other users of the sea were merchant seafarers plying the established trade routes. In more recent times fishermen have had their activities restricted by the imposition of restrictive licensing, quotas, and more recently effort control restricting the number of days that vessels can go to sea.