Originally Posted by aklim

Therefore this will be in international waters. How will you enforce it? If you are talking about a 12 mile area, it will be difficult even tho is is US waters. Assuming the article is correct, who else will agree with it? You are talking of at least 1/3 of the water surface. You can't close off such a large section. We can't even close off the mexican border and that is way smaller an area. Now you want to take on the world? It will lead to fighting with most of the world. Close off fishing and start sinking ships will be an act of war. Even if it doesn't, do we have the money to do that? We are running a deficit as it stands. Such an expense, even IF, and I doubt it, it could be done, will be so expensive, we can't maintain it.

Only 2 options remain. We either get everybody on board or we leave it till it is right in our faces and then people will HAVE to do something. At that point, fishing will be so slow, it won't be too much of a sell. Again, we are talking about international waters where we all have a right to be there. Now you are going to tell others that they cannot fish there and we will sink them. Isn't it like me telling you that you cannot be at this public park because of this, that or the other?