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Her reporting revealed significant consensus on likely effects of the new system, which allocates individual fishing quotas \u2013 or IFQs \u2013 to fishermen who harvest groundfish &#8211; any of\u00a0 90 plus species of rockfish (like chilipepper or yellowtail), flatfish (like dover and petrale sole) and roundfish (like sablefish and lingcod) on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p>That growing consensus suggests that IFQs on the West Coast will:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspire and increase stewardship of fish stocks, by doing away with a fishery management system that promotes the wasteful shoveling of \u201cbycatch\u201d \u2013 fish that current regulations require crews to shovel overboard, usually dead, after it is brought aboard in trawl nets.<\/li>\n<li>Create full accountability for all fish caught\u00a0\u2013 tallied by federal fisheries observers who will be onboard trawl vessels while they\u2019re at sea.<\/li>\n<li>Dramatically increase quality of the scientific data provided by fishermen to federal scientists whose job it is to assess fish populations and help set harvest guidelines.<\/li>\n<li>Provide fishermen with a valuable and marketable asset, in the form of quota shares \u2013 a percentage of each year\u2019s total allowable catch.<\/li>\n<li>Help to replace competition and distrust among industry participants \u2013 fishermen, seafood buyers and regulators \u2013 with cooperation and communication, hallmarks of catch share fisheries the world over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/quest\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/west-coast-fishermen-go-on-the-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen<\/a><\/strong> to\u00a0KQED\u2019s story on the West Coast catch share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their weekly Quest series on the science and environment of Northern California, San Francisco\u2019s KQED public radio took a look at the groundfish catch share management program that will be rolled out on January 1st in the state\u2019s largest commercial fishery. 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