Managing fishery quotas

• WALT Understand how groups make and implement rules and laws.

Success Criteria: Describe how and why groups make decisions about access to and use of resources.

After Reading Managing Fisheries

In a small group of 2-3 students (from your reading group) read and discuss the following statement:

By the early 1980s, with dwindling inshore stocks and too many boats, the New Zealand fishing industry and the government realised that a new fisheries management was needed. The warning that ‘too many boats are chasing too few fish’ was being rephrased by one fisherman as, ‘too many boats chasing no fish.’

Use these questions to guide you and record your answers on a doc. LEARN\]

1. Are there too many boats? There too many boats chasing no fish
2. Why are there 'no fish'? Because most of the boats chase them away
3. What is or should be done about it? they should take the right amount that they want.

In your small group discuss and individually record your opinions on:  LEARN

1. What is a Quota?A limited quantity of a particular product
2. Why the Quota Management System was needed?So that they can manage the right amount of fish for the people.                                                                      
3. How it was implemented.                 
4. Who polices it?A police called the managing fisheries police policies the fish                
5. How are commercial Quotas different from recreational quotas?recreational quotas can’t sell their fish but commercial quotas can sell their fish.

                                                                                                                                           List the positive outcomes of such an initiative.  CREATE, SHARE

In New Zealand we have quotas for the number of fish people can catch. These are a positive thing because: