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(8,200 posts)The problem with the diversity of laws regulating lobster fishing were so diverse that the situation resulted in the formation if the Atlantic
States Fisheries Commission to establish uniform regulations across the Atlantic sea board states. The situation became so dire that the harvesting of lobsters in the Long Island Sound has reached a critical point. The major problem appears to be due to climate changes that have increased the water temperatures to the extent that the entire industry is threatened.
The most logical solution is the establishment of regulations by a board that studies the effects and requirements for not only the American coastline but one that could negotiate international regulations. This is also a problem with regulation of commercial operations by foreign commercial operations that can not be addressed by individual states. So, what was the solution. The intervention of the federal government to write and negotiate laws. It escapes me as how a state government would go about negotiating a law with a foreign government without federal government recognition unless you establish each state as recognized independent sovereign nation.