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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27397)	4/3/2008 12:52:03 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27397)	4/3/2008 1:39:27 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

This is exactly what USA did when they granted everyone who was growing tobacco at the time a right to continue to grow it. IMHO Iceland had more egalitarian motivation to accompany their similar economic motivation. In addition it created $5B in wealth out of whole cloth. The tragedy that their fishing rights averted helped not only Iceland but anyone who wants to harvest renewable ocean resources that would have been diminished by thier excessive take and need to go further afield to harvest it. The US could learn from their experience.