What is a Catch Share?

[captlen]

No problem LL. We need to spread the word on how the enviros are attempting to hyjack our fish for profit and total control. That was my editorial in the current issue of Big Game (It is in the mail to our subscribers.) that I posted on a southern blog about a week ago. I felt it was important to be posted early because of some of the comments being posted. here are some links to help show the EDF's plans for our fisheries.

Please listen to David Festa EDF and Jason Winship Sea Change Investment Fund's comments at the Innovative Funding For Sustainable Fisheries meeting in 2009.
https://www.milkeninstitute.org/even...9&eventid=GC09

Take a look at the Financing Fisheries Change document and tell me if you believe it is all about conservation. Read the Cape Cod Trust and Sea Change.
http://www.mantaconsultinginc.com/wp...ies-Change.pdf

Capt. Len Belcaro
Big Game Fishing Journal

[Captain Fish]

Catch Shares are not about conservation. They are about MONEY and CONTROL.

A catch share is an exclusive guarantee that whoever holds the catch share has the exclusive right to harvest a certain percentage of the total allowable catch of a particular species of marine life. That’s a mouthful, and you read it correctly.

Catch Shares are NOT GOOD for "recreational fishing, commercial fishing, and charter fishing". They will increase the costs of fishing substantially, to the point of many not being able to fish at all anymore. This Natural Resource, belongs to all the people, not just a few of the most wealthy. All in all, these Individual fishing quotas (IFQ) “catch-share” programs, are going to be bad for fishermen, bad for ecosystems and bad for consumers.

Catch Share, or individual fishing quotas, which would allocate personally owned shares of the catch of public fisheries only to certain fishermen

So what does this mean for you and me? Tighter regulations. Shorter fishing seasons. Higher prices. Less boats on the water. What does this mean for our economy? I don’t even want to think about it.

[KP161]

Jerry: You don't even know what a write off is.
Kramer: Do you?
Jerry: No, I don't.
Kramer: But they do and they're the ones writing it off.

Insert catch share for write off.

[LuckyLady]

Very well put thank you!

Catch Shares are not about conservation. They are about MONEY and CONTROL.

A catch share is an exclusive guarantee that whoever holds the catch share has the exclusive right to harvest a certain percentage of the total allowable catch of a particular species of marine life. That’s a mouthful, and you read it correctly.

Catch Shares are NOT GOOD for "recreational fishing, commercial fishing, and charter fishing". They will increase the costs of fishing substantially, to the point of many not being able to fish at all anymore. This Natural Resource, belongs to all the people, not just a few of the most wealthy. All in all, these Individual fishing quotas (IFQ) “catch-share” programs, are going to be bad for fishermen, bad for ecosystems and bad for consumers.

Catch Share, or individual fishing quotas, which would allocate personally owned shares of the catch of public fisheries only to certain fishermen

So what does this mean for you and me? Tighter regulations. Shorter fishing seasons. Higher prices. Less boats on the water. What does this mean for our economy? I don’t even want to think about it.