private business activity that can be effective in both greening fisheries as well as driving new employment opportunities and wealth creation.
In regions of the world where rights are difficult to implement or communities prefer other forms of management, it is clear that the public has a large role in investing in green fisheries. This is an opportunity for public funds to be used in an area that will create jobs and yield benefits for public resource owners. National
strategies such as environmental fiscal reform are likely to be successful in cases where fish stocks remain within national boundaries. In other cases where stocks travel between the boundaries of two or more countries, regional or global strategies such as market based levies combined with international cooperation have a great deal of potential. Even in cases where green investment is to operate at the national level, international cooperation on topics such as the redirection of fisheries subsidies can be highly influential in driving change.