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Article: Commercial anglers may soon own shares in fish stocks.(SPORTS)(OUTDOORS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 28, 2005
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Byline: Gene Mueller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Last week an outfit called Environmental Defense applauded Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez's effort to modernize how the federal government governs fishing.
Guitierrez is proposing amendments to the nation's primary fisheries management law. One of those proposals includes giving commercial fishermen ownership shares in the stock of the fish they target, called dedicated access privileges (DAPs) in fishery law terms. The proposed amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act explicitly authorize doubling the existing number of these programs.
A commercial fishing ...