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Canada and the United States Reach Agreement on Yellowtail Flounder
On Tuesday, December 21 Congress overcame an obstacle that has been limiting the number of fish that could be caught by American fishermen in waters that are shared by Canada and Unites States. Currently based upon interpretation of United States law American fishermen are at a competitive disadvantage to their Canadian counterparts because the laws in the US require fishermen to follow a tight guideline on stock rebuilding. The previous guidelines prevented fishermen from catching all kinds of fish in the region once the limit of a single kind of fish was caught. These guidelines were established to help and prevent overfishing as a result of other fishing activities.
The new law will not cause a complete shutdown of the fishing region once a single species of fish is caught which will help fishermen in catching a wider variety of fish. In particular the new law will benefit the scallop industry which has previously been forced to shut down once the yellowtail flounder limit was reached. As part of the new law passed the relationship and bargaining with Canada over the catch limits on yellowtail flounder and other fish is now an international agreement.
This new law is great for the fishing industry in the US-Canada region. By allowing fishermen to continue to fish for other species of fish after a limit of another has been caught seems to me to make sense. Before the law US fishermen would have to watch Canadian fishermen caught and sell the fish of the region because their laws on quotas and over catching were drastically different then those in the United States. I find it strange how a technicality in the previous law prevented fishermen from catching fish even though Canadians were allowed to catch the same fish from the same water.
The fish that were caught by Canadian fishermen in the US-Canadian waters were not just sold in Canada but it was also sold in the US. If the US really wanted to curb the overfishing of yellowtail flounder shouldn’t they have tried and limited the import of the fish from Canada? By limiting the sale of the flounder to the US we would have been encouraging Canadian fishermen to catch less fish because the market would not have the same demand for the fish. By changing the demand for the flounder the US would have been able to allow more US fishermen to continue to catch the flounder and other fish in the area such as scallops.
As a result of the new law catch limits for the US should increase making the fishing industry in the area stronger. I’m glad to see that the fishing industry in the US-Canadian waters are no longer unfair based upon an interpretation error in US law.
What are your thoughts on the US-Canadian International Fishing agreement?
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