Abstract

The growth of aquaculture has caused environmental issues that have been hard to deal with from the traditional fishing regulation perspective. The need to control said problems has challenged the basic foundations of State intervention of the exercise of economic activities. New instruments to be used in the regulation, such as the precautionary and ecosystembased approach, space planning and production increase related to environmental performance arise as alternatives that require an analysis of their scope from the constitutional limitations perspective that may be imposed to the economic activity.