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- GregLoire, on 10/04/2008, -1/+8It's their fault for being so delicious. It's not like we're running out of broccoli.
- inactive, on 10/04/2008, -0/+4It is working in Australia. The government bought back fishing Boat Licensees and the Fishing License for thousands. Reducing fleets from 30 or more boats to 10 or 12 per port. The fish species each have a catch limit and size limit as well as seasons for some. We are fishing some rare species and keeping the stocks plentiful. You pay a premium in the shop for rare species and less so for common species. That works perfectly. The common sport fisher is encouraged to fish but return them only taking what they need and you need a license to fish anywhere.
- LawnMowerKitten, on 10/04/2008, -0/+4"Giving a man a fish — not teaching him how to do it"
I don't think 'doing' fish is the problem here. - sloppychris, on 10/04/2008, -0/+4It sounds like a wonderful idea. The best way to deal with these issues is to force accountability in the results, preferably of the financial variety. If their own future profits are at stake people are much more likely to be responsible with their actions.
- Tulumbo, on 10/04/2008, -2/+6could fish keep quotas on the menu?
- ultraJesus, on 10/04/2008, -0/+3could menus keep fish on the quota?
- Amnesia10, on 10/04/2008, -2/+5Totally wrong, unless you control fishing, most fish stocks will become commercially extinct. Just look at the Grand Banks for a perfect example. It has so few cod that area is commercially dead. Then look at Iceland which regulates Cod stocks closely and it is totally sustainable.
If someone has a lake and allows everyone to catch and eat as much as they like within a season he will have a dead lake. - RabeiUsura, on 10/04/2008, -0/+3We need to stop hunting for them, and develop better fish husbandry tech.
- inactive, on 10/04/2008, -0/+3http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2008/08/11/wee ...
there are tons of things to do to keep fish on the menu.
special blades under water to snag and cut any drift nets
Impound overfishing ships. or sink them on the spot..they would make good reefs and be ironic at the same time.
nobody has the guts though. maybe some American military hardware company can make a overfishing fighter submarine that costs 10 billion dollars. then the government would buy some for sure..think of the kickbacks! - nmlyons24, on 10/04/2008, -0/+2here fishy fishy fish
- a1cd, on 10/04/2008, -1/+3Bush -"I believe human beings and fish can co exist peacefully"
- ZenMojo, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1Of course, if everybody goes out to the same lake, that lake is *****.
- sylentmode, on 10/04/2008, -1/+2Individuals are not the problem. Commercial fisherman demolish the species in strides. You are letting countries use nukes but not guns, thinking the death count will go down. How about drive the cost of fish up by limiting commercial fisherman quotas.
- randomstuff42, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1Why is this wrong? TFA discusses one broad method of controlling fishing, a quota system, that would change it from a "commons" type problem into a scenario where the individuals doing the fishing will directly benefit, or suffer, depending on the survival of the stock. The only real issue i see is that the majority of the ocean is international water, so enforcing a comprehensive set of quotas would be difficult.
- Barackalypse, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1Because I don't want to be a farmer and because economies of scale result in lower prices than supporting smaller scale local family farms.
- inactive, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1*****' yawn
- Anzat, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1The opening line is pretty stupid. Obviously, teaching a man to fish will result in less stress on global fish populations, because someone who goes out to the lake behind his house to get all his fish will not be buying a bunch of pollock in the store.
- ubuwalker31, on 10/04/2008, -0/+1Some fish populations are hurting and others aren't. On the east coast, there has been an uproar over "Summer Fluke" - there are debates between anti-fishing wing-nuts who want to ban all fishing and commercial and recreational ocean fisherman. There is no question that there needs to be flexible scientific management of fisheries, without politics involved...the problem is that the commercial industry is only interested in profit and continuing non-sustainable practices, and the recreational fisherman is being bamboozled by industry representatives into thinking that commercial fisherman can do no wrong.
- Anzat, on 10/04/2008, -1/+2Speak for yourself.
- inactive, on 10/04/2008, -2/+2Part of the overfishing problem could be all those times I've been served fish, politely declined, and wasted the dish.
Sorry, I just don't like fish. - spyd3rweb, on 10/04/2008, -1/+1Why be dependent on big corporations for your food?
- gnarkill726, on 10/04/2008, -6/+4No.
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