Gloucester (MA) Times: Leading fishery scientist sees ‘crisis’ in catch shares – November 10, 2010

Gloucester (MA) Times: Leading fishery scientist sees ‘crisis’ in catch shares

Academic scientist Brian Rothschild has issued a harsh critique of fishery management policies, asserting that the rush to create a catch share commodities market in New England’s groundfishery has meant a transfer of “public resources to private individuals” yielding an unnecessary government-made “economic crisis.”…