SeaSick: Is the quota system the best way to sustain our fisheries for future generations?

SeaSick: Is the quota system the best way to sustain our fisheries for future generations?

By Brad Flahive

Source: stuff

4/26/2022

Some laud New Zealand’s fishing quota system as a world-leading model that limits overfishing. To others, it’s the culmination of a century of Treaty breaches that eroded indigenous rights of Māori and put local fishers out of business. Now, calls to fix it risk rocking the boat – but can we do better? Brad Flahive reports.

On the other side of the world, halfway between Scotland and Iceland, lies a mountainous archipelago called the Faroe Islands.

There, in the northeast of the Atlantic Ocean, all living marine resources in its waters are property of the Faroese.

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