AMERICA
self a commercial fi sherman. “When can cost a lot. It can cost four to six men to switch to another more abun-
IFQs were put out for halibut and times the value of the fi sh you can dant or more profi table species such
sable fi sh, there were huge winners catch in any given year, and you have as halibut. Since IFQs are species-
and huge losers, and most of the los- to fi sh for fi ve to six years to pay off specifi c, fi shermen in the program
ers were fi shermen. the cost of buying it. are denied such fl exibility.
“IFQs were only granted to vessel “People who did not get IFQs and In a 2006 study of the Alaskan crab
owners, so if you owned a vessel, you have discovered that you have got to industry after IFQs were established in
got all the IFQs and the pay big bucks to get in 2004, Food and Water Watch found
captains and crews got
nothing,” Seaton says.
“
A fi sherman
resent the privatization that 1,150 fi shermen lost their jobs. By
can’t just get
of a resource that used to the fall of 2005, up to 5.8 million red
Initially, IFQ own- be publicly available.” king crabs were discarded because the
ers had to be aboard
himself a small
Seaton sees another price had fallen too low.
their fi shing boats, but
boat and go
problem with IFQs: “Crab rationalization has left
that changed as time Fishermen get locked Alaska crabbers and coastal commu-
went on, Seaton says.
out and make
into catching certain spe- nities out in the cold while warming
IFQs were bought and
a living.
traded, with the richest
’’
cies. In the past, a down- the wallets of a few individuals and
turn in supplies or price corporations,” says Wenonah Hauter,
boat owners consolidating many of for a certain fi sh variety — salmon, executive director of Food and Water
the IFQs into blocs. for example — would prompt fi sher- Watch.
“The fl eet dropped to less than half
the old fl eet,” Seaton says. “There are
a lot of people leaving the water. You
don’t see young guys getting into
fi shing much anymore.
“A fi sherman can’t just get him-
self a small boat and go out and
make a living. It changes the entire
economic scale of the fi shery.”
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management
Reauthorization Act of 2006 “sets a
fi rm deadline to end over-fi shing in
America by 2011” and directs Regional
Fishery Management Councils to
set up quotas, according to a White
House statement.
Further, it notes, “The act will help
us double the number of limited-access
privilege programs [IFQs] by 2010.”
Gunnar Knapp, an economics
professor at the University of Alaska
in Anchorage, tells Newsmax that the
IFQ efforts “favor larger companies.
They lead to consolidation. It has all
MOBILE DEFENSE
the glories and failings of the mar-
DO NOT CROWD THIS TRUCK!
ket system. It’s a drastic change for
anyone who wanted to go out on the
The Department of Defense will pay the Raytheon Co. $25 million for fi ve portable
ocean in a small boat and earn a liv-
Silent Guardian “pain ray” trucks to protect troops from hostile crowds and terror
attacks. The nonlethal weapons emit powerful radio waves that penetrate the skin,
ing as a proud fi sherman.
.
producing an intolerable burning sensation. “If somebody was throwing a Molotov
O
“Before, a kid could fi sh on his
cocktail at your troops, it would cause that individual to drop it and seek cover,”
ON C
dad’s boat, work hard and get his
says Shawn Miller, the Raytheon manager overseeing the project. The Silent
YTHE
own boat and go fi shing,” Knapp
Guardian “is a way to deter people without immediately going to lethal force.”
Y OF RA
says. “Now, they say you can’t get an The vehicle weighs about 10,000 pounds and has a range of 800 feet. TES
IFQ unless you pay for it, and IFQs C
OUR
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