Since prices increase as shrimp size increases, one might
ask why fishers do not wait to capture large shrimp later in
the season (i.e., avoid using small mesh nets). Doing so
would generate more financial benefit and the added
ecological benefit of increasing the chances that part of
the adult shrimp stock would return to the Gulf of Thailand
for reproduction. The problem is that lack of regulation
enforcement (concerning how, where, and when to fish, and
who is allowed to fish) makes the Lagoon a common
property resource in an open-access situation.