Why are high seas fisheries classified as common pool resources? Select one: a. It is possible to exclude a person from the high seas and when one person catches a fish another can’t. b. High seas fisheries are not common pool resources c. The entire globe has access to high seas fisheries d. There is no way to exclude a person from the high seas and when one person catches a fish another can’t.

The letter D is correct because deep sea fishing is a resource that thousands of people have access to and even depend on for their survival. What fits this activity as a commonly owned resource 1, which are natural or artificial activities where the ability to exclude users is not remote. This becomes a problem as there are no resource constraints for each user, ie in the case of deep sea fishing, when a user fishes a fish, it is not available for the other to fish, which would lead to conflicts between management of such activities, so it is necessary to classify as a private activity and then allocate policies to adapt better management to all users.