One way to help prevent overfishing may be to guarantee each fisherman a specified share of the catch, according to a new report.
Collapse of fish stocks is much less common in areas where "catch share" fishing is practiced than in other regions, researchers say in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
The reason, they say, is that the system increases the incentive to protect the fishery rather than causing fishermen to compete against each other to see who can bring in the largest catch.
In a catch share system, individual fishermen, or fishing cooperatives, are allocated a share of the catch based on what they have caught over a …
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