There are immense challenges to creating a rational fishing system that
will meet the livelihood needs for this generation and generations to come.
There have been a number of voluntary steps in the right direction. Small-scale
fisherman who are concerned about livelihoods are creatively cooperating with
nongovernmental organizations in projects such as the Morro Bay agreement to
restrain self-interested fishing activities through “no-trawl zones” in the shortterm
to collaboratively restore the long-term health of stocks and create local
economies of scale.304 The International Maritime Organization is extending