Blue Marine Foundation’s Co-Founder and Senior Consultant, Charles Clover, has written a new commentary detailing how overfishing can be considered one of the largest examples of ‘tragedies of the commons’. Clover argues that the general absence of effective fisheries regulations endangers whole oceans and the billions of people who depend upon fish for their livelihoods. He says, “Currently, fisheries ministers are myopically obsessed with the pain the industry always claims it would suffer next year if the right conservation policies were adopted. They should look instead at how long we have been getting it wrong, and how quickly things could be turned round.”
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