Letters: California's Fishery Permit Policy Allows for Private Ownership of Public Resource
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Letters] - July 14, 2016
Dear Seafood News Editor,
I very much enjoyed the article (California's "Squid Cartel" is the Result of State's Confidential Fishing Permit Rights) on California squid fisheries and the secret ownership of permits. However, I feel the bigger issue is completely missed here as it often is throughout the whole West Coast. The problem is not who owns the fishery; it’s more that “anyone” can own the fishery. I come from a family three generations deep of fishers. My grandfather, my father, my uncles, all fishermen. I, however, as a young kid saw opportunity in marketing. It is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a fair, honest, marketer of the fish that arrives portside along the West Coast. I had no visions of owning or loaning to boats, had no goals of buying quota and that was not even an option when I began as it did not work that way. Yet.
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