To prevent overfishing, governments should address the issue of poverty and poor education in small fishing communities. This may involve finding them a new source of income.
Good luck with that. Maybe teach them to produce more jewellery from coconuts? And to eat sand? It's not the small boats that cause overfishing but the mega businesses who fish by the tonnes and who the governments will not take one step to control, ever. Who dump broken nets of a humungus size overboard to strangle sea life. And the scourge of plastic waste in the oceans caused by the horrid humans who consider the earth to be a huge rubbish bin for them discarding anything and everything where they stand. It's hard not to despair sometimes.
