Team 6: October 29th
Establishing a law that requires all fishing vessels to have a GPS tracking device on board will make the regulation of fishermen and fishing companies much simpler and more effective. It will allow regulating bodies to know which fleets are in the water and whether or not they are within legal boundaries. For fishermen, it is an simple way to determine which closed areas are in effect. For all fishing vessels currently in operation, the cost of the tracking devices can be subsidized.
Establishing a fish tax will put the cost of depleting fisheries on the consumer. Similar to gasoline tax and cigarette taxes, a fish tax will increase the cost of any fish products sold on the market. Currently there is a very high demand for fish, and if we are to keep a sustainable global fish population, we cannot catch the number of fish needed to meet this demand. An increase in fish prices will not only discourage consumers from buying more fish, thus lowering the demand, but it will make them aware of the crisis in our oceans today.
Issues: poor people now cannot afford fish (but in America there are substitutes)
Other ideas:
*Subsidizing fishing is NOT a solution.
*Fish tax vs. tariffs?
*what if countries aren't allowed to fish in each others waters at all? (make distant water fleets illegal) then the only way to get fish would be through imports and exports, which is easier to regulate than flaghopping
*set international standards for nitrates/phosphates (<-- algae)
Todd: October 28th
Let's start expanding the outline by adding questions and topics that need to be addressed under each section of the outline. If you make changes please sign them with your name and date. Substantial restructing of the outline is probably best left in the hands of the executive committee. Possibly we could also use this page to keep track of work assignments, but I would like to discuss that in class first. The page will look better if it is edited in Wiki Markup language. It's not hard to do. If you would like to alter, object, or otherwise comment on any of these suggestions, please contact me.
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Solution Document Outline
- Introduction
- Survey of global fisheries and their significance
- How much fish is caught? Where and what kinds? How important are nonfood uses of fish? How important are nonfish ocean products? Todd Mooring 10/28
- What is the monetary value of these fish/other ocean creatures? How big economically is the fishing industry? How many people work in it? Todd Mooring 10/28
- Attempt to classify world fisheries. Discuss similarities and differences between large high technology fisheries that provide fish to the developed world and the small fisheries of developing countries. Todd Mooring 10/28
- Survey of global fisheries and their significance
- Threats to fisheries
- Fishing activities
- Overexploitation Todd Mooring 10/28
- Bycatch Todd Mooring 10/28
- Other aspects of fishing (trawl damage, ghost fishing) Todd Mooring 10/28
- Pollution
- Climate
- Could non-temperature aspects of climate change impact fish? If so, how? Todd Mooring 10/28
- Assess relative importance of these factors Todd Mooring 10/28
- Fishing activities
- Implications for Humans
- Food security
- Needs to be assessed by region of the world Todd Mooring 10/28
- Economic impact
- Would it be possible to put a dollar value on the loss of global fisheries? Todd Mooring 10/28
- How hurtful have fishery collapses been in the past? Todd Mooring 10/28
- Food security
- Goals and Justification
- (Maybe we should insert the goals here) Todd Mooring 10/28
- What we want and why
- Non-biological considerations when formulating solution
- Economic/social/political issues
- Regional/fishery management solutions---How goals are to be achieved
- The global problem is a collection of local problems
- Regional solutions
- Discuss fishery problems and solutions in various regions of the world
- Solutions by fishery type---solution templates
- Discuss problems and solutions in various kinds of fisheries---large commercial, subsistence, etc.
- Discuss effectiveness of various types of fishery management systems. Some methods are better than others, according to one source. Todd Mooring 10/28
- This section could probably be reorganized Todd Mooring 10/28
- Global and technical aspects of solution
- Climate
- International waters
- Change global fish demand
- Aquaculture
- Specific recommendations/issues not addressed elsewhere
- Need for additional fisheries research
- Conclusion
Todd: October ?
Here is an outline/template for our solution.
Using the Outline
We could create the solution by listing and then answering relevant questions under each of these headings. The topics are listed in what I think would be a rational order for a presentation or paper. The outline could also be a site map for the Web site we will create. Please feel free to send comments to me and/or post them on the wiki.
-Todd Mooring
Solution Document Outline
Introduction
Survey of global fisheries and their significance
Threats to fisheries
Fishing activities
Pollution
Climate
Implications for Humans
Food security
Economic impact
Goals and Justification
What we want and why
Non-biological considerations when formulating solution
Economic/social/political issues
Regional/fishery management solutions---How goals are to be achieved
The global problem is a collection of local problems
Regional solutions
Discuss fishery problems and solutions in various regions of the world
Solutions by fishery type---solution templates
Discuss problems and solutions in various kinds of fisheries---large commercial, subsistence, etc.
Global and technical aspects of solution
Climate
International waters
Change global fish demand
Aquaculture
Specific recommendations/issues not addressed elsewhere
Need for additional fisheries research
Conclusion