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Take Action Make sure you're able to know where your seafood comes from. Explore Further Fish Farming Oceans Policy & Fair Fish Seafood Reports Newsletters ASA Press In The News Food & Water Watch Releases Fresh New Collection of Affordable, Sustainable Seafood Recipes for Holiday Season Retired Indiana Teacher Wows Judges with Recession-Friendly Fish Recipe Food & Water Watch Applauds Senator Vitter for Helping Put Brakes on Gulf of Mexico Offshore Fish Farming Food & Water Watch and Other Organizations Sue Secretary of Commerce and Agencies on Offshore Aquaculture Plan More >> See all headlines >> See all headlines >> Help Us Grow	IFQ's: Irrational Approach Irrational Approach explores the public trust, socioeconomic and environmental problems associated with individual fishing quotas (IFQ). Under an IFQ program, individual quota holders are guaranteed a portion of the total amount of fish that can be caught within a fishery. This report documents how the allocation of private rights to a public resource is detrimental to coastal communities and marine ecosystems. Published: 2006 Number of Pages: 20 Download this Document: PDF file Fact Sheets Cap-Rent-Recycle: Common Sense on Catch Shares Catch Shares: Problems in Fisheries Management Commercial Facility Based on the University of the Virgin Island’s Aquaponic System Water Usage in Recirculating Aquaculture/Aquaponic Systems Fair Fish: Fair Access to Fish more... Reports Land-Based Recirculating Aquaculture Systems — This report, Land-Based Recirculating Aquaculture ... Fishy Farms Updates — Since the initial release of Fishy Farms in Octobe ... Laboratory Error — Over the past few years, food safety alerts about ... Fish Story — After a series of safety scares about imported sea ... Fishy Farms — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administratio ... more...

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