Many studies show that multiple factors push people to
overfish, such as ineffective fishery management, a rapid change
in fishing technologies, a high demand for fish in domestic and
international markets, and an increasing population of poor
people in coastal areas [4,7,36]. These findings tend to emphasize
the technical aspects of fishing/fishery and planning strategies
(e.g., changing technologies, the conservation of ecosystems,
marine resources and species, decreasing CPUE, and fishery
regulations and management) rather than the characteristics of
fishers’ livelihoods (e.g., assets, investments, risks, variability in
income and savings, conflicts, and diversification). Fishery policies
in general aim to regulate fishing to ensure the sustainable
management of fishing resources, to limit over-fishing and ensure
the sustainability of the livelihoods of fishers.