The European Commission has promoted ruinously excessive fishing quotas.
Temporary visas are given to workers in fields as diverse as agriculture, crab picking and computer programming, with almost all industries complaining of excessive bureaucracy and low quotas.
Suppliers often hire and fire thousands of people at a moment's notice to meet production quotas, press them to work excessive overtime that leaves workers exhausted and clinically depressed, and skirt around health, safety and environmental concerns.
Opponents say the quotas are based on shaky science, driving excessive catch reductions to meet an arbitrary deadline faster than necessary.
We find that a combination of incentives and limits on use rates for the mechanisms provide sufficient flexibility to the quota owner without the fishery manager incurring excessive levels of overexploitation risk.
Here, the fisheries service rewards longliners with a bluefin quota so they can catch and sell an excessive share of bluefin bycatch, and any bluefin caught above this amount become dead discards that sink to the ocean floor.
Without quotas, Bangladesh needs more efficiency and modernity, often translating into pressure for more output, excessive working hours and restrictions on the right to organize.
Quotas have mostly taken a backseat to other, more visceral controversies, like those involving excessive use of force and the always-controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
Quotas have mostly taken a back seat to other, more visceral controversies, like those involving excessive use of force and the always-controversial "stop and frisk" policy.
Human rights groups regularly accuse Russian police of brutality and using excessive force against suspects, claiming that many are tortured to extract false confessions so as to meet the required quota for solving crimes.
