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When Gloucester and fishing were kings |
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By almost any measure, Gloucester's commercial fishing effort today is a pale reflection of what it was when Gloucester and Gloucestermen were synonymous with the sea's riches and its risks. |
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'Green' activists take the wheel |
| How big-money enviro groups control America's fisheries | |||
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Catch shares proving to be very hard sell |
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A seminal policy paper published after the election of President Obama, primarily sponsored by EDF and written by Lubchenco and a team of like-minded scientists, asserted that "catch shares, regardless of their form, have been proven to restore economic and environmental health to ocean fisheries." The paper explained that catch shares transform wild resources that have traditionally been commonly owned into tradeable catching rights. The value of those shares, no matter what their size, increases as the value of the fishery increases, encouraging conservation. Catch shares have proved a very hard sell. |
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'Hookers' heroes to environmentalists, not fellow fishermen |
| When fishermen sued the federal government last month over the new catch share rules for groundfish, they charged that The Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen's Association had received preferential treatment. The 'hookers' as they call themselves test piloted the catch share system and became the model of what a fishing fleet should be in the eyes of the government and environmental activists. | |||
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Seafood Coalition: Grappling with new management model |
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The business model devised by Giacalone and his colleagues at the Northeast Seafood Coalition sought to adapt the system to the New England fishery's 19 stocks of 15 species in three ocean epicenters — the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank and the waters of Southern New England. A more unwilling partnership would be hard to find. Giacalone, as cofounder and policy director of the Seafood Coalition, knew its members were hostile toward catch shares and the government regulators seeking to impose them. The hostility, said Giacalone, "didn't change the task at hand, which was allowing the industry to survive." |
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33 Fishing Community Members Say Permit Bank, Giacalone are pluses for Gloucester
This permit bank is a true local treasure for our fishing community and related businesses. Its existence has been one of the only positive things to come to this fishing community in decades.