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ITQs an investment mess?(LETTER & E-MAILS)(Letter to the editor)
Your article on individual take quotas ("Net Benefits") swallows the arguments in their favor hook, line, and sinker, when some probing would reveal that ITQs are more than a little fishy. Take the analogy to cap-and-trade systems: Emission reduction schemes are successful because the cap is set on the environmental bad, which polluters then compete to underachieve. The equivalent bad in fishing is bycatch of non-target and threatened species, which account for a shockingly high percentage of global catches.
An incentive system designed around a tradable bycatch cap would generate significant environmental ...
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