Friday, February 17, 2006

Newport News-Times: The debate on individual fishing quotas continues:
Feb 17, 2006
The debate on individual fishing quotas continues
By Joel Gallob Of the News-Times ..................

An Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) gives its holder a right to a percentage share in the harvest of a particular fishery. Most often, rights in an IFQ program can be sold, inherited and gifted, making them ITQs - and making them more like a property that an owner can assert property rights in.

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