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Jul
09

Who Owns the Sea? As the world’s seas become the last–grossly overfished–frontier, who is the sheriff?

sheriff-th“All this begs the question, who owns the sea? You might think that in a modern democracy we, the citizens, should be the owners. But European and national law, such as it is, really protects only the rights of a number of vested interests, such as those of fishermen. Yet few fishermen prosper, for the law as it is keeps them effectively in a state of anarchy, a race for the last fish, in which only the most rapacious and most technologically-advanced survive.”


1 Response to “Who Owns the Sea? As the world’s seas become the last–grossly overfished–frontier, who is the sheriff?”


  1. July 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM

    Caught several of these on the fly on Lake Victoria in Tanzania a few years back…..And yes they taste fantastic on a barbie!


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