Remember when Spanish warships started escorting their trawlers to just outside Canadian territorial waters, after the Canadians threatened to stop any vessel that tried to do so? Yes, I think resource scraps are a definite for the future, even over fishing. Or have I just played too much Civ 3?
The Alaska ideas will work if quotas are set that allow fish stocks to grow, or stay constant - the problem is that in internatinal waters individual nations have no jurisdiction and we are back to the tragedy of the commons issue again, as factory trawlers sit outside territorial waters and clean up.
Nah CivIII is just starting to reach the modelling sophistication needed to consider these resource issues and their solutions. I do wonder about greater political functionality though. :-)
As for extra-territorial migrating fish - yes, I take your point - which is why the challenge then becomes global fishing rules with global enforcement.
In the face of global challenges like this, it saddens me to see such a lack of leadership or real discussion on this. We've had 30 bloody years already! Nearly 10 since the last agreement on the Law of the Sea.
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Re: Not so cut and dry as that, unfortunately
Date: 2003-10-03 11:06 am (UTC)The Alaska ideas will work if quotas are set that allow fish stocks to grow, or stay constant - the problem is that in internatinal waters individual nations have no jurisdiction and we are back to the tragedy of the commons issue again, as factory trawlers sit outside territorial waters and clean up.
Re: Not so cut and dry as that, unfortunately
As for extra-territorial migrating fish - yes, I take your point - which is why the challenge then becomes global fishing rules with global enforcement.
In the face of global challenges like this, it saddens me to see such a lack of leadership or real discussion on this. We've had 30 bloody years already! Nearly 10 since the last agreement on the Law of the Sea.