I've blogged before on the "tragedy of the commons"/bureaucratic mismanagement problems that underlie the crashing of the West Coast salmon fisheries and that imperil the giant Atlantic bluefin tuna ; a recent article by Fortune shows that there are glimmers of hope for ocean fisheries...
Dave Neiwert, a thoughtful voice on the left and with an experienced, informed view on America's right-wing racist fringe, has a rather confused post up on whaling on his blog, Orcinus. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/02/standing-up-to-japan.html . Neiwert sends a mixed message by saying we need...
Over at Cafe Hayek , Don Boudreaux blogs about fishing and property rights. This got me thinking: What is necessary for rational allocation of fishing rights? Clearly, treating the ocean's fish as totally unownable is problematic, as that sort of thing would naturally lead to overfishing. At first...