{"id":1355,"date":"2010-05-19T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T20:46:03","slug":"south-carolina-fisherman-wants-catch-shares-not-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/05\/19\/south-carolina-fisherman-wants-catch-shares-not-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Fisherman Wants Catch Shares, Not Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent op-ed by Chris Conklin in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesunnews.com\/2010\/05\/14\/1473206\/catch-share-fishing-plan-needed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Sun News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, voiced frustration over the cascading <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/02\/09\/another-day-another-closure\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>closures<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0now hitting the Southeast. Conklin comes from a fishing family and wonders if he\u2019ll be able to stay in the fishing industry unless catch shares are instituted. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is considering a number of options \u2013 including catch shares \u2013 to reduce fishing closures and get fishermen back on the water.\u3000<\/p>\n<p>Conklin points to the success of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/02\/03\/new-gulf-grouper-catch-share-already-proving-good-for-fish-businesses\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>red snapper catch share<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the Gulf of\u00a0 Mexico.\u00a0 Not too long ago, Gulf red snapper fishermen were in a similar situation to fishermen in the Southeast. Now, they are now enjoying the third successful year of a catch share. They have a year-round season and dockside prices are higher. These fishermen will likely receive more fish this year because fish population rebuilding is going so well.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Gulf commercial fishermen deal with the worsening oil spill, the flexibility they have to fish throughout the year lets them plan their businesses in the face of natural or man-made problems better than those not under a catch share.<\/p>\n<p><em>Never miss a post! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/EDFish\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/strong> to EDFish via a email or a feed reader.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent op-ed by Chris Conklin in The Sun News of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, voiced frustration over the cascading closures now hitting the Southeast. Conklin comes from a fishing family and wonders if he\u2019ll be able to stay in the fishing industry unless catch shares are instituted. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council is considering a number of options \u2013 including catch shares \u2013 to reduce fishing closures and get fishermen back on the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/05\/19\/south-carolina-fisherman-wants-catch-shares-not-closures\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1947,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[472,597,72531,490,470],"coauthors":[5160],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-of-mexico","tag-catch-shares","tag-fisheries-management","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-red-snapper","tag-south-atlantic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Carolina Fisherman Wants Catch Shares, Not Closures - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/05\/19\/south-carolina-fisherman-wants-catch-shares-not-closures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Carolina Fisherman Wants Catch Shares, Not Closures - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A recent op-ed by Chris Conklin in The Sun News of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, voiced frustration over the cascading closures now hitting the Southeast. 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