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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (27409)	4/4/2008 12:19:07 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	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." I think what you are possibly referring to is when the USA recently CHANGED the old tobacco quota system, allowed quotas to be traded, and also scheduled their phase-out so that eventually people would be able to grow tobacco anywhere they wanted without the requirement of having a quota allotment. Right? (Wasn't the ORIGINAL quota system dated from the pre-WW II era, and weren't the quotas NON FUNGIBLE... which created an hereditary entitlement?) "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." Yes, I'm sure we could. (I understand the wild salmon fisheries on the West coast are collapsing... and East Coast bottom fish as well....)