Study: Catch share system may prevent overfishing

Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 15:56 in Biology & Nature

One way to help prevent overfishing may be to guarantee each fisherman a specified share of the catch, according to a new report. Collapse of fish stocks is much less common in areas where "catch share" fishing is practiced than in other regions, researchers say in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

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