Second, we need to allocate catch shares among fishermen, so everyone fishing knows what he can have, and no more.
Opposition to catch shares in the western Pacific can be understood as a specific variant of a generic pattern of opposition that is often centered on concerns for distributional impacts.
Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs), also called "catch shares", have been broadly adopted in the last two decades, at the same time that concerns about their equity and effectiveness in delivering the predicted outcomes have increased.
JA: Right, I've seen folks on the right refer to catch shares as "cap-and-trade for fish" and they don't mean that as a compliment.
More recently, however, "catch shares" have caught on, in which fishermen own a portion of the overall fish haul each year and have incentives to manage the fisheries.
The fact that environmental champions like Barney Frank and Frank Pallone joined 21 other House Democrats in a vote for the amendment shows that, despite what you suggest, catch shares do not have the support of the fishing communities.
This good news is in part the result of a strategy called "catch shares," under which regional fish councils set overall limits on the annual harvest and then apportion the catch among individual fishermen.
One way is to end the race for fish through "catch shares," a market based system that sets aside a secure share of fish for individual fishermen, communities or fishing associations.
One regulatory scheme, known as "catch shares," allows fishermen to own shares in a fishery — that is, the right to catch a certain percentage of a scientifically determined sustainable harvest.
Spillovers in regional fisheries management: Do catch shares cause leakage?
