The main thrust of the reform is to give more powers back to fishing regions, instead of micro-managing fisheries from Brussels.
Instead of looking back to the old days of fisheries mismanagement, we should embark upon the next 40 years with a positive agenda that strengthens both fisheries and fishing communities.
But what you can do is stabilize the damage you had from BP, and as long as you can hold ground instead of losing ground, you will have a fishery".
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By using Marxan to set catches as targets instead of as a cost – the common approach in reserve selection – each fishery is targeted the same way, and therefore (under the assumptions of this approach) would incur a loss proportional to that fishery.
Also, spawning-ground fisheries tend to be coastal, using traditional fishing methods (e.g., hand lines from smaller boats instead of trawling from open-ocean vessels) that are less selective for size; this is the case, for example, for the spawning-ground fishery for Northeast Arctic cod off Norway (Godø 2003).
Instead of calling on consumers to abstain from all overfished species, we should direct our attention at fisheries that consistently take more fish than can be naturally replaced.
Instead of the current race to catch the last fish, Dr. Lubchenco is calling on them instead to submit to an ownership system known as "catch shares" under which they would be given a fixed share of the fishery and, with it, a strong financial interest in having the fishery survive and grow.
If the 47 other sac roe fishery permit holders pooled shares, insurance rates would go down, catch rates would go up due to lack of competition, and the gear class could work in tandem, instead of competition, he said.
