{"id":3141,"date":"2011-11-21T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:50:05","slug":"west-coast-fishermen-adapt-to-catch-shares-and-end-wasteful-regulatory-discards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/11\/21\/west-coast-fishermen-adapt-to-catch-shares-and-end-wasteful-regulatory-discards\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Fishermen Adapt to Catch Shares and End Wasteful &#8220;Regulatory Discards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost one year ago, the West Coast&#8217;s largest commercial fishery by volume transitioned to a catch share management system. The new system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enables fishermen operating in the multispecies groundfish trawl sector to fish when they want, rather than forcing them into a series of two-month &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; fishing time-frames;<\/li>\n<li>Enables them to lease or trade quota for specific species and adapt their fishing practices to both market and weather conditions; and<\/li>\n<li>Ends the universally-despised &#8220;regulatory discards,&#8221; which, under the previous management system, compelled fishermen to throw uncounted tons of perfectly good fish overboard, dead.<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/programs\/ofg\/segments\/view\/1805\" target=\"_blank\">The Oregon Field Guide<\/a><\/em> recently sent a reporter\/videographer team on a fishing trip aboard the F\/V Cape Windy, with Oregon fisherman Paul Kujala, to witness firsthand how the new system is affecting fishermen. During the trip, Kujala was surprised to haul in a large amount of Canary Rockfish, one of the most tightly-regulated &#8220;constraining species&#8221; that the new system is designed to gradually rebuild. In the past, those fish would have been thrown overboard. You can view the OPB video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/programs\/ofg\/segments\/view\/1805\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost one year ago, the West Coast&#8217;s largest commercial fishery by volume transitioned to a catch share management system. The new system: Enables fishermen operating in the multispecies groundfish trawl sector to fish when they want, rather than forcing them into a series of two-month &#8220;use it or lose it&#8221; fishing time-frames; enables them to lease or trade quota for specific species and adapt their fishing practices to both market and weather conditions; and ends the universally-despised &#8220;regulatory discards,&#8221; which, under the previous management system, compelled fishermen to throw uncounted tons of perfectly good fish overboard, dead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/11\/21\/west-coast-fishermen-adapt-to-catch-shares-and-end-wasteful-regulatory-discards\" \/>Read the full post &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[468],"tags":[36758,597,8022],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-discards","tag-fisheries-management","tag-pacifics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>West Coast Fishermen Adapt to Catch Shares and End Wasteful &quot;Regulatory Discards&quot; - 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\/2011\/11\/21\/west-coast-fishermen-adapt-to-catch-shares-and-end-wasteful-regulatory-discards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"West Coast Fishermen Adapt to Catch Shares and End Wasteful &quot;Regulatory Discards&quot; - EDFish\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Almost one year ago, the West Coast&#039;s largest commercial fishery by volume transitioned to a catch share management system. 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