DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska - A team of ecologists and economists say sharing, not competing, can make fishing safer, preserve fish populations, and even help stocks recover.
What a GREAT IDEA, huh, America??
Looks like you need to JUNK the SPORTS MINDSET as well as the CAPITALISTIC SOCIALISM, huh?
Then maybe the WORLD would be better off -- after we tell Israel to fuck off!!!!
The authors also found that a quota system not only can reverse the trend toward collapsing fisheries but also can help them return to thriving enterprises.
Christopher Costello, a resource economist at UC-Santa Barbara, said he was surprised to find that the data showed such clear support for a fundamental tenet of resource economics: A change in incentives can remove the motivation to out-compete someone else and switch to longer-term conservation.
Andy Rosenberg, former deputy director of the National Marine Fisheries Service, said that as promising as they may be, "It's not like catch shares solve all of the problems of fisheries management." He noted that New Zealand's orange roughy stocks took a nose dive despite switching in the early 1990s.
It remains crucial, he said, for government to limit the total catch to keep stocks healthy enough to reproduce.
Gee, by the end of the piece I sure caught a stench of globalist plans.
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Now, it is not like I am for overfishing, folks, but that hasn't been done by the local guy chugging out of Gloucester or New Bedford; the depletion of fish stocks is due to the miles-long drift nets of corporate ships that deplete the ocean of everything!!!
