Private ownership of seas as a solution to over-fishing

One of the reasons over-fishing happens is that seas that contain certain fish are not really owned by anybody. If you compare it to woodland areas that are privately owned, most wooding companies (in North America) use a chop one plant two policy so as not to deplete their own supply of trees. If you compare it to Borneo or Brazil, where loggers just go to public woods and chop them down, deforestation happens at an alarming rate. Now to the problem of over-fishing, when you designate sea areas that can be privately owned, a fisher would have an incentive not to catch all the fish at once, but to give his fish an opportunity to regenerate, and so the problem of over-fishing could be solved. Thoughts?

 

The US used to clear cut all the time and until recent times did they get forced to take action against this (last 30+ years)

All countries own a certain amount (or control) of waterways. When in that countries waters you abide by there laws, when in international waters you do as it is allowed by international law.

 

or we could tax fisherman, to support fish farms, and stock ships.

but that'd be crazy
push up the price of fish to the consumer

we don't want that.

 

Um they do to US fisherman and crabbers and ect including demanding license fees up front and penalties too.