There are several dimensions to the overfishing problem. First, excessive
exploitation of fish stocks in the short term leads to inefficiently low
stocks in the long term. Second, more and more fish stocks are being
fished to the point of collapse on a worldwide scale (Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, 2010), which means that they will
not recover in the short and medium terms. This second dimension has
attracted considerable scientific attention and public concern in the last