Congressional Hearing Presents Narrow View of Catch Shares

A hearing today in the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife mostly overlooked evidence of the benefits of catch shares and instead zeroed in on fears. Out of the eight witnesses who testified, just one was a fisherman, Bob Dooley, who has actually fished in a catch share program …

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