Could closing the high seas to fishing save migratory fish?

You have probably heard that wild fish are in peril around the world, and that in some places their populations are in precipitous decline. That is particularly true on the high seas, or international waters. Operating as a massive unregulated global commons, where any nation can take as much as it wants, the high seas are experiencing a latter-day "tragedy of the commons," with the race for fish depleting stocks of tuna, billfish and other high-value migratory species.

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