{"id":2327,"date":"2010-10-27T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2010-10-27T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T14:31:16","slug":"alaska-fishermen-speak-on-improved-safety-under-catch-share-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/10\/27\/alaska-fishermen-speak-on-improved-safety-under-catch-share-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Fishermen Speak on Improved Safety Under Catch Share Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gBbCH77xKW0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gBbCH77xKW0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gBbCH77xKW0\" target=\"_blank\">short video<\/a><\/strong> by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marineconservationalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Conservation Alliance<\/a><\/strong> includes interviews from fishermen about how much safer fishing has become in Alaska under catch share management.<\/p>\n<p>One fisherman explains that before catch shares the crab fishing season, \u201cwas long enough that everybody was exhausted and you went beyond what maybe you should. And short enough that you couldn\u2019t stop and rest.\u201d Another fisherman states that with the catch share management system, \u201cI don\u2019t have to race for fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that in 2009 fishing was \u2013 once again \u2013 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/08\/19\/less-dangerous-under-catch-shares\/\" target=\"_self\">the deadliest job in America<\/a><\/strong>. The profession is often made more dangerous by traditional fishing regulations that sharply curtail when fishermen can be on the water. This increases pressure to catch as many fish or shellfish as quickly as possible. Fishermen sometimes go fishing even in the face of dangerous weather, overload their boats with equipment, and work much longer hours. Under catch shares, fishermen have far more flexibility on when to fish as long as they stay within their specified quota allotment for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short video by the Marine Conservation Alliance includes interviews from fishermen about how much safer fishing has become in Alaska under catch share management. One fisherman explains that before catch shares the crab fishing season, \u201cwas long enough that everybody was exhausted and you went beyond what maybe you should. And short enough that you couldn\u2019t stop and rest.\u201d Another fisherman states that with the catch share management system, \u201cI don\u2019t have to race for fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/10\/27\/alaska-fishermen-speak-on-improved-safety-under-catch-share-management\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[468],"tags":[472,5129,517,5130,337],"coauthors":[5152],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-catch-shares","tag-deadliest-job","tag-fishery-management","tag-fishing-safety","tag-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alaska Fishermen Speak on Improved Safety Under Catch Share Management - 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\/10\/27\/alaska-fishermen-speak-on-improved-safety-under-catch-share-management\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alaska Fishermen Speak on Improved Safety Under Catch Share Management - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A short video by the Marine Conservation Alliance includes interviews from fishermen about how much safer fishing has become in Alaska under catch share management. 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