Tim Fitzgerald, EDF Senior Oceans Policy Specialist
Now or Never Radio, a web-based radio show on the environment, recently interviewed Tim Fitzgerald about catch shares and the currently failing fisheries management system of “days at sea” (see segment titled “To Sea or Not to Sea”). While Tim expounds on the ability of catch shares to end overfishing and improve fishing jobs, Now or Never also interviewed Gary Hall, a gill net fisherman from Block Island, Rhode Island who acknowledges overfishing as a result of conventional fishery management, but he’s skeptical of catch shares. Hall expresses that he and other fishermen want to move from their current frustrations and challenges so that fishermen can become profitable again. The bottom line is that catch shares can achieve just that.