Rolling Ban

Rolling Ban is a worldwide fishery restoration proposal first proposed by the Corporate Statesmen Think tank. Researcher Avraam J. Dectis was the primary contributor.
The proposal divides the world's fisheries into a roughly equal set. Each element of the set would, in turn, have all but the most trivial harvesting banned for a period of time.
A far too simple example would be to divide the world's fisheries into a set of three - Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. The Pacific would have all commercial scale fishing banned for 3 years, followed by the Atlantic for three years and finally the Indian for three years.
Fisheries currently in surplus would be exempted if such an exemption would not adversely affect the wider fishery.
Each fishery would have its quotas raised , if possible , after its ban was over to compensate for the lost harvests.
This is called a Rolling Ban because it would cycle in perpetuity.
The goal is to give entire ecosystems a chance to recover and thus support bountiful harvests into the foreseeable future.
Precise implementation parameters would be determined by extensive simulations.

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