“Catch Shares” metioned in your post are right out of Agenda 21. The PCSD recommemded “establishing an allocation system in which a limited number of fishermen may work”.
Catch Shares have devastated the New Englang fisheries to the point that a large part of the fleet is tied to the dock and the Gov. of Mass has requested $21million in economic disaster aid for the fishing industry.
NOAA Administrator Lubchenco promptly requested $54 million to expand it to all American fisheries even taking money out of slim research budgets to promote it.
The enviro’s tout it as the best thing under the sun yet it does nothing for conservation as the total allowable catch is not reduced. It does privitize the marine resources into the hands of a few “winners” that the govt. picks.
Another interesting point is that EDF published the Catch Share implementation manual and the current Head Adm. of NOAA, Jane Lubchenco is a former Vice Chair of EDF.
Wonder who is going to end up owning these allocation’s down the road? HMMMMMMM
Also, Iceland’s economy was ruined by their venture with Catch Shares to the point that the Icelandic fishermen went to the U.N. Human Rights Commission who ruled that Catch Shares are a violation of the Convention on Human Rights.
84% of seafood consumed in the US is imported now and we have a trade deficit over $10 billion. This is re-distribution of American wealth. The fisheries are for the most part extremly healthy. The last thing we need to be doing is shutting down more of our natural resource production.
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