Who Owns the Fish?
Mar 12, 2013
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Ariane Wu
Series Producer, Multimedia -
Arthur Jones
Illustrator/Animator -
Susanne Rust
Environment Reporter
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Investigation(s):
- The I Files
Topic(s):
- Environment
Any commercial fisherman used to be able to fish in U.S. seas. Not anymore. Today, the right to fish belongs to a number of private individuals who have traded, bought and sold these rights in unregulated markets. This system, called "catch shares," favors large fishing fleets and has cut out thousands of smaller-scale fishermen. How did this happen?
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