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> Trusting fishermen to limit themselves is a nice idea, but incredibly naive. Well it's happened before. Fishermen associations getting together and being lik
by rtpg 12y ago
> Trusting fishermen to limit themselves is a nice idea, but incredibly naive.
Well it's happened before. Fishermen associations getting together and being like "we will not have anything left to fish if we don't stop fishing so much" and they agreed. Basically ends up working.
- gambiting 12y agoBut sometimes it backfires - in EU bans were introduced to stop fisherman from fishing out too much of a certain types of fish - but it's not like you can tell the fish to stay out of your nets, so what ended happening was that they would catch the banned species just like they used to but they couldn't bring it back inland,so it had to be thrown overboard before entering port - already dead. So it was the ultimate waste of resources - those fish have been killed for literally nothing, as they couldn't have even been consumed.