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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27397)4/3/2008 12:52:03 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
If it was an issue of providing subsidies (like farming in the US and many other countries), or of creating an artificial scarcity (like cab licenses in New York, or in many other cities), than I'd oppose it.

But as we reach the limits of the number of fish we can pull from the seas (at least for desirable types of fish, its not like we are completely denuding the seas of life), it makes sense to remove fishing (at least large scale commercial fishing, I'm not talking about someone going out with a pole and catching a couple of fish) from "the commons".

Having the commercially valuable species of fish be part of the commons made sense when we had 19th century or earlier technology and for the most part could never pull all those fish out of the ocean, but those days are gone.
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