Hog Daddy and the Walls of Steel: Catch Shares and Ecosystem Change in the New England Groundfishery

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration implemented market-based fishery management in the New England groundfishery as catch shares, controlling aggregate harvests through tradable annual catch quotas allocated to fishing groups called sectors. Policy supporters assert that resulting markets raise conservation incentives. In compliance with the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, species assessments permit catch shares to replace more spatially and temporally specific constraints on fishing gear, time, areas, and daily harvest limits. Qualitative evidence from field interviews and participant observation questions the efficacy of catch shares. Fishing industry members observe that increased presence of large trawl vessels in previously protected areas damages fish subpopulations and benthic habitat. Regulatory bioeconomic models fail to consider these lay observations. The consequent inability of quota markets to recognize the materiality of human–environment relationships at the spatiotemporal scales of fishing activity, and to internalize associated externalities, may have devastating consequences for the fishery.     

几种鳕鱼的生物学初步研究

本文在调查与校核资料的基础上，报告了狭鳕（Theragra chalcogramma)、蓝鳕（Micromesistius poutassou)、远东宽突鳕（Eleginus gracilis)、大西洋鳕（Gadus morhua)、太平洋鳕（Gadus macrocephalus)和黑线鳕（Melanogrammus aeglefinus)等六种经济鳕雪类分类地位、区系性质与分布。并对上述鳕雪主要形态特征进行了详细的描述，建立了狭鳕等五种鳕鱼体长与总重关系式，以期找出各鱼种的生长发育规律。