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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Zetland [mailto:dzetland@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:25 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: [env-trinity] Bay- Citizen: Catch shares leave fishermen reeling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Ouch.<br><br>Commented and will blog...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This article is indeed trying to create a "big bad capitalism" image with repetition of "winners and losers." Everyone loses when a fishery collapses.<br><br>1) It's true that catch limits are sufficient to establish environmental sustainability, but catch shares are a useful way to reduce "effort" (e.g., boats, men) such that the fishery is economically sustainable.<br><br>2) Small guys like Collins probably got excluded b/c shares were grandfathered to the largest fisherman, and he was "too small" to administer. (It's obvious that they could have given him 1 share worth 50*200lbs=10 tons along with everyone else, if only as a means of preventing these claims, but what about the 100lb/week guy? And so on...)<br><br>3) The WHOLE POINT of catch shares (as well as catch limits) is to reduce the number of boats and fishermen. Lost jobs = success in an industry that's over capacity.<br><br>4) The attempt to link funding to results, even while admitting that lots of "govt funded" studies support catch shares, is a fishing expedition that makes the author look biased. Pity.<br><br>5) Thanks for writing this. I will blog it as an example of journalism that pushes an agenda over policy analysis and misses the big picture of a economically and environmentally sustainable outcome.<br><br>David at aguanomics<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.aguanomics.com">www.aguanomics.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us" target="_blank">env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us" target="_blank">env-trinity-bounces@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Stokely<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us" target="_blank">env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [env-trinity] Bay- Citizen: Catch shares leave fishermen reeling</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="https://www.baycitizen.org/news/environment/system-turns-us-fishing-rights-into-commodity-sque/" target="_blank">https://www.baycitizen.org/news/environment/system-turns-us-fishing-rights-into-commodity-sque/</a> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><div><div><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:7.5pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:28.5pt;color:#322E2F'>Catch shares leave fishermen reeling</span><o:p></o:p></h2></div></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#322E2F'><img border=0 width=645 height=255 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:7BD8CAEC-93A5-43D2-A868-015336BE53E3@att.net"></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted gray 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;margin-right:131.25pt;min-height:30px'><div><div style='margin-left:7.5pt;margin-bottom:3.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#362F2E'>San Francisco fisherman Larry Collins waits for a crabbing boat near Fisherman’s Wharf in January. Collins says catch shares are squeezing out small fishing operations. “This system has given it all to the big guys,” he says.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-left:7.5pt;margin-bottom:6.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#362F2E'>Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>David Zetland (NL: 06-5185-5496/US: 510-455-4656)<br>Founder of the <a href="http://waterdatahub.org/" target="_blank">Water Data Hub</a> (Got data? Add it! Want data? Go look!)<br><a href="http://www.enr.wur.nl/UK/Staff/Zetland/" target="_blank">Senior Water Economist</a>, Wageningen UR ~ Blogger at <a href="http://aguanomics.com/" target="_blank">Aguanomics.com</a><a href="http://endofabundance.com/" target="_blank"><br></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Author of <i><a href="http://endofabundance.com" target="_blank">The End of Abundance: economic solutions to water scarcity</a></i><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>