I wrote the article on reducing catch shares, and just wanted to comment saying that I strongly agree with Saulius’s analysis here.
Currently, implementing humane slaughter for wild-caught fish seems like a slam dunk.
Currently, reducing the catch of wild fish seems extremely ambiguous. My catch share article mostly concluded with “we should do more research on this to reduce these uncertainties”. I also wrote a later article about subsidies—abolishing fisheries subsidies seems like a fairly easy way to reduce the catch. But in many cases, it would cause the population size of the target fish population to increase, causing more deaths by fishing over time even if effort remains low. (Plus, the effects on other wild animals...)
So I strongly agree with Saulius that:
Humane slaughter seems fantastic, and
We probably shouldn’t try to reduce the fish catch yet because we don’t know if it’s good or bad—though I do believe that dedicated research could quite readily make substantial progress on this question.
I wrote the article on reducing catch shares, and just wanted to comment saying that I strongly agree with Saulius’s analysis here.
Currently, implementing humane slaughter for wild-caught fish seems like a slam dunk.
Currently, reducing the catch of wild fish seems extremely ambiguous. My catch share article mostly concluded with “we should do more research on this to reduce these uncertainties”. I also wrote a later article about subsidies—abolishing fisheries subsidies seems like a fairly easy way to reduce the catch. But in many cases, it would cause the population size of the target fish population to increase, causing more deaths by fishing over time even if effort remains low. (Plus, the effects on other wild animals...)
So I strongly agree with Saulius that:
Humane slaughter seems fantastic, and
We probably shouldn’t try to reduce the fish catch yet because we don’t know if it’s good or bad—though I do believe that dedicated research could quite readily make substantial progress on this question.