Actions taken to date by resource managers to deal with overcapacity in small-scale fisheries, such as command and control regulation and vessel and gear buy-back, have not been effective at dealing with the issue. Unless the core issue of fishing capacity-i.e. of overcapacity are address, that is, access control and defined property or user rights and facilitating the exit of labor and capital from the fishery, any regulatory measures or other management strategy, such as marine protected areas, will simply be a stopgap measure sine more people will continue to enter the fishery.