Use Property Rights to Save Fisheries Around the Globe, Says New Study – Who needs Science?!

bean_counterIf nothing is done to reform open-access fisheries around the world, fishing stocks could drop by as much as 77 percent below current levels by 2050, reports a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If, however, property rights were assigned to individual fishers or communities, the yield trajectory of most of the world’s fisheries would shift sharply upward and most would recover biologically in only 10 years. These conclusions were reached by a team of researchers led by University of California, Santa Barbara environmental scientist Christopher Costello in their study, “Global fishing prospects under contrasting management regimes.” The Bean Counters. Read the article, Click here 08:18

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