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Cart Before the Horse – Access and Diversity in Fisheries – NEFMC and Amendment 18
The council, one of eight national bodies established in 1976 by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, abandoned in 2009 its former Days at Sea policy that strictly controlled the number of trips vessels could take in search of their target species. They introduced a new regulatory model based instead on catch shares that, through autonomous ?sector management,? would reduce the competitive pressure to overfish. However, one of the consequences of sector management has been the overaccumulation of catch-quotas by larger fishing fleets and the subsequent decline of coastal fishermen who operate inshore vessels. [email protected] 12:10
