Marine rewilding

4 Passive marine rewilding

Today, the seas around Europe continue to be fished at unsustainable levels, while the amount of fish being caught drops every year. Fishing pressure needs to be reduced to allow fish stocks to recover.

Laws, policies, and voluntary agreements are the main tools for designating areas of the sea for nature. Laws and policies can dictate how, where, and what people fish, and which other uses are permitted. This enables them to be applied across seascapes at much larger scales than physical demarcation could cover.