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#51828
Would you buy "catch shares" to help save the whales?
Greg - 1/12/2012 7:53 PM
Category: Survey
Replies: 22

An idea called "catch shares" seems to be resurfacing as a solution to save whales and other over harvested/endangered marine life. Its like buying stock in a company, except the company is whales. If you own "catch shares", that gives you the ability to legally catch a certain quota of whales. In the case of an environmentalist, the shares may be purchased and never used, therefore whales are saved. Would you buy catch shares to save whales?
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MDW - 4/18/2012 11:09 AM
[Choose #2] This only works if Japan and a few others actually abide by their catch share, which they really do not. It’s really throwing your money away.
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DiveBuddyChgo - 1/27/2012 9:05 PM
[Choose #2] The $$ used to buy the shares would only be used to kill more whales. You are investing $$ into the whaling industry. The next season will only have more catch shares avail.
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jojodiver - 1/15/2012 9:20 AM
[Choose #1] I understand the theory of the idea and while I admire it, I think to uphold the fact that you, who may live in say, New York ,own a whale , who’s in danger of being slaughtered by a Japanese ship in the Pacific may be difficult to enforce.
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LatitudeAdjustment - 1/13/2012 6:43 AM
[Choose #3] I’d rather buy the whaling ship and make it an artificial reef. The whale shares looks like smoke and mirrors
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RAWalker - 1/13/2012 2:07 AM
[Choose #2] Do we really need to bribe business to be good stewards of our natural resources?
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Agojo - 1/13/2012 12:56 AM
[Choose #3] Isn’t there an international law amounting to this now with Japan’s share of 900+ for research which is actually for food, just change the research catch share.
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Greg - 1/12/2012 7:56 PM
[Choose #1] Yes, but only if there was more enforcement of laws. This system would only work if everyone abided by the rules.